Data-driven testing  Anton Vredegoor anton at Fri Apr 25
13:43:10 CEST 2003  Peter Hansen <peter at> wrote:  <throwaway
scripts>  >I can't see any point in continuing the discussion,
can you?  This discussion about whether throwaway scripts tend
to get thrown away or not is too heavily based on the wrong
Dutch quotes. A more fitting quote would be "ieder voordeel heb
zijn nadeel" from a famous Dutch soccer player (and later soccer
trainer in Italy). It means as much as "every advantage has its
disadvantage".  In modern Dutch society this quote and the
reverse standard form of it are several times more popular than
all of Dijkstras quotes taken together. Since the man also went
to Italy later in his career there's probably also an Italian
version of this quote and of several other of his remarks.  Now
to get to the point, I would like to suggest that the advantage
of writing throwaway scripts is that there's no Dijkstra or
employer looking over ones shoulder saying; "Are you serious? Is
this the way you are sp