Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 17/09/2024 19:32, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2024-09-16, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 16/09/2024 18:19, James Kuyper wrote:

Any such defects can be corrected by filing a defect report and
convincing the committee that the report is correct. If they agree, the
next version of the standard is likely to contain revised wording to
address the issue. Try doing that with the Bible.

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At the risk of offending people, I'd say this /has/ been done with the
Bible countless times.

 However, it was done 1) for ideological reasons, not to actually correct
any of the obviously ridiculous stuff and

Well, it's debatable about how often this has been done for ideological reasons, and how often the motives have been for money or power.  But at least sometimes, changes to the Bible have been ideologically motivated.   Motivations for changes to the C standards have also been a bit of a mixed bag (though I think for the defect reports, as far as I have seen, it's been for simple clarification or fix of definite errors or omissions).

2) while pretending that it's
all still literally God's word (and believing it).
 

Some people pretend to believe, some people believe the pretence.  And maybe some of the believers are right about some things - some key religious beliefs are not amenable to more scientific fact checking.

It's like if someone took C99 and removed, say, designated initializers,
because they just don't like them, and then preached that their version
of the document is still ISO 9899:1999, with people believing it and
spreading the falsified document along with that claim that it is
still the word of the ISO committee.
 

I think the analogies between the Bible and the C standards might be breaking down at this point!