[OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004, Kent Stewart wrote:
>On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:36 am, Bill Moran wrote:
>> Peter Risdon <peter at circlesquared.com> wrote:
>> > Robert Huff wrote:
>> > >Peter Risdon writes:
>> > >> I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch
>> > >> sees many commits that are likely to be problematic.
>> > >
>> > >	In general, no.
>> > >	On the other hand ... think of this as a Murphy's Law scenario:
>> > >if you automate, it _will_ break horribly two days before some
>> > >absolutely critical deadline.
>> >
>> > QED
>>
>> I must be "out of touch" with my jargon ...
>>
>> What's "QED"?
>
>I remember seeing that  at the end of mathematical proofs at the 
>University where the professor was too lazy to finish their 
>documentation. It was much more fitting here :).

The original Latin is ``Quod Erat Demonstrandum'', translates to that was
demonstrated (about as much as I remember from five years of Latin).

Bill
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