Michael Shaw

@MichaelAnderson: Just because some code exists that has no unit tests and is unmaintainable, doesn't mean that all code without unit tests is unmaintainable.

@jcollum: I'm not sure you can blame the language for not fitting the testing framework. If a testing framework's testing philosophy requires twisting the language that the framework is written for, that sounds like a design flaw in the testing framework.

-1 This answer still contains the factually incorrect assertion that short-circuiting is a compiler optimization, despite having been edited multiple times after this was pointed out in a highly upvoted comment.

@MikeNakis: That Java and C# do it is no indication that there is no better design. Java didn't put reflection in originally, so it would not be surprising if they needed an ugly hack to make it work when they bolted it on later. It isn't anti-pragmatic to reject ugly hacks if you don't need them.

@Chad: The "stopped beating your wife yet" question was meant to be an illustration/support for my literal/implied distinction, not to be a direct analogy. I had considered rewriting it to clarify, but without a clear idea of what's unclear I'm probably not going to end up doing that.

@Chad: Thanks for the feedback from yesterday. I didn't see anything in the question that suggested Actually it is a requirement being forced upon the OP by his management as a result of poor performance of the team..., was that an assumption, or did I miss something?

@jmac: I have also read all of your comments carefully, and I've tried to respond to every point you make. I have asked three separate times whether you thought my answer was unclear or you didn't understand it, and I have yet to receive a response.

@jmac: I don't know what assumptions you think I'm making. I made the response you quote after you had apparently just threatened to flag my answer (when this didn't make sense), and you had just told me that I'd said the opposite of what I'd said in my answer. Neither of those would make sense if you had both read and understood my answer.

@gnat: Fair enough. Although given your description, I'm not sure I want to start using painful mode...

@gnat: On that question, the top 7 or so answers are good, long, and pretty heavily upvoted. I'm not against removing chaff, but I don't think you can say that the chaff is overwhelming the wheat when you'd have to scroll down the page awhile to see any.

@jmac: I'm disagreeing with you, not "being curt".