Letter Writing: What does, to address soundness holes, mean in the following paragraph?

[iambozdar]

Following is a paragraph someone wrote to many to address his retirement.

It was a pleasure working with you all; the times we spent discussing technical issues, finding ways to address soundness holes, etc. were something I always enjoyed and looked forward to.

I understand soundness, it means, some meaningless noise. Yet, what would be the exact sense of the writer? Is he sarcastic? Does he want to tell everybody how frustrated he was while working with them?

Thank you.

 

[Tarheel]

Following is a paragraph someone wrote to many to address his retirement.



I understand soundness, it means, some meaningless noise. Yet, what would be the exact sense of the writer? Is he sarcastic? Does he want to tell everybody how frustrated he was while working with them?

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"It was a pleasure working with you" does not express frustration. The "soundness holes" do, no doubt, have something to do with the job. (I am unfamiliar with that term.)

 

[teechar]

The following is a paragraph someone wrote to many to address his retirement.

Please tell us where you found it.

I understand soundness, it means, some meaningless noise.

No, it doesn't. Look it up. www.onelook.com

Yet, what would be the exact sense of the writer? Is he sarcastic? Does he want to tell everybody how frustrated he was while working with them?

No. Look up "soundness", then it'll hopefully make more sense.
By "holes", the writer means "gaps" or "shortcomings".

 

[iambozdar]

No. Look up "soundness", then it'll hopefully make more sense.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soundness

 

[teechar]

Look at entry 1.a "free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension".
And please don't forget to give us the link I asked for above.

 

[iambozdar]

Please tell us where you found it.

[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida Filho

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[Tarheel]

He says it himself. It's a technical issue.

Have you googled "soundness holes"?

 

[Tarheel]

He expresses job frustration to some extent. He doesn't want to deal with the non-technical issues anymore.

 

[iambozdar]

Have you googled "soundness holes"?

Yes, I went through Merriam's thesaurus. I understand linguistic, mathematical, and logical nature of "soundness" now.

If I only search "soundness holes" as a term, internet throws crap code at me.

 

[Tarheel]

My best guess is that it's a term not widely used. In any case, you can't separate the words. It only makes sense as "soundness holes" and then, apparently, only in very narrow specialty. Maybe somebody on the forum will be able to help you with that. However, my guess is that only if you are in the same line of work do you know what he's talking about.

If this is part of an assignment maybe your teacher knows what that means.

 

[iambozdar]

if you are in the same line of work

He is talking about software bugs which occur during certain processes only.

If this is part of an assignment maybe your teacher knows what that means.

This is not the case.

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Only one programming community uses that term. I was not familiar with that. We, the C/C++ programmers, don't use it to describe those particular programming problems. We simply use word vulnerability, instead.

I was part aware of his problems. I posted this here to only find out linguistic meaning of that paragraph in his letter, which is an email to thousands of community members, and if it carries a hard-coded insult against C community. And, it does.

Neither I am into a fist-to-fist fight with him nor quarrelling anyone there verbally. He is a good programmer.

This thread now needs closing because there is no linguistic thing remains to discuss anymore. Except, if someone checks my text aggressively and replies with some constructive feedback.

 

[emsr2d2]

Only one programming community uses that term. I was not familiar with that it. We, the C/C++ programmers, don't use it to describe those particular programming problems. We simply use word vulnerability, instead.

I was partly aware of his problems. I posted this here only to only find out the linguistic meaning of that paragraph in his letter, which is an email to thousands of community members, and if it carries a hard-coded insult against C community. And, It does.

Neither I am neither into a fist-to-fist fight with him nor am I quarrelling with anyone there verbally. He is a good programmer.

This thread now needs closing because there is no linguistic thing that remains to be discussed anymore, Except, if unless someone checks my text aggressively and replies with some constructive feedback.

I've no idea what you mean by "check a text aggressively"! I've made corrections above. Once you've explained what you meant by that word, we'll probably close the thread for you.

 

[iambozdar]

"check a text aggressively"!

It means, not to be lenient while making corrections of the text I posted.

 

[iambozdar]

I recall that I wanted to replace that Except with Unless in the last sentence, but I got busy. There are still many mistakes.

Could you please guide me, how to get rid of these mistakes? Any recommendations, books, or series?

I already have two MacMillan's books. One is the original 1982 edition of Macmillan English, and second is Destination C1&C2.

 

[iambozdar]

It means, not to be lenient while making corrections of finding misrakes in the text I posted.

I recall that I wanted to replace that Except with Unless

Now both sentences sound better to me.

 

[Tarheel]

It means, not to be lenient while making corrections of the text I posted.

I don't know what you think "lenient" means.

I wish this thread would die a quiet death.

 

[iambozdar]

would die a quiet death

Amen!