Do not use hammer. :) (fwd)

Teo Zenios wrote: Let's keep politics out of it, thanks. Aphorisms might be witty, but they prove nothing but what you already believe. Back on topic, Nick Tredennick, who did the microcode for the 68000 and was the architect/microcoder for a u370 implementation, wrote a book about his microcoding techniques on that u370 project. Nick is outspoken and a natural contrarian apparently. In the tail end of his book there is a glossary and there are a few funny entries. I don't have the book with me, and I only recall two of them. One was something like: Methodology: strictly speaking, the study of methods. Often misused by over educated snobs when what they really mean to say is method. The other I recall was like: Testability: things you add to the design against your will because someone important in the department said you had to. Tieing two threads together, he wasn't against testability of the system -- the u370 was big on RAS -- but rather he thought functional verification of the chip was the hard but right way to do things.