[Tutor] Tax Brand

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 9 03:17:30 CEST 2013


On 09/10/13 00:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Ah, the good ol' "Make Random Changes In The Hope That The Error Will Go
> Away" strategy! :-)

When I was a young and naive apprentice we had a gnarled
old training instructor who called this the "poke n' hope"
strategy for fixing faults... (Actually, he probably only
seemed gnarled to us, callow, 16 year old, youths, he was
probably younger than I am now! :-)

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