Re: BASIC bugs [Was: Powerbasic, Visual Basic or other?]

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From: Gary R. Schmidt
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:34

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Phred wrote:

[SNIP stuff about bugs in BASIC implementations...]

 From this I assume you don't know that there were many bugs in MS BASIC 
and BASCOM?

Man/most/all(?) were put there by Bill.

There is a story that someone who had run across one of these egregious 
bugs, a "sort routine" that effectively did nothing, and was having a 
bit of a "who'd write this sort of crap" to the others when Bill wanders 
through, looks over his shoulder, and sheepishly says, "I wrote that."

The moral of this is that even commercial products have bugs, many of 
which remain in the product for ever, effectively.

Some of the bugs in C compilers I've dealt with, from the likes of IBM, 
HP and MS, over the decades have led to me producing some strangely set 
out and #pragmatised code.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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