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Article #1882Shipping bogus code (was: Re: prototypes required ?)
From: John F. Haugh II
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 14:20
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 14:20
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In article <1990Oct22.231028.24623@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Considering the number of things in (to pick purely random examples :-)) >SVR4 and SunOS 4.1 that clearly were never tested, I fear Chris is being >naive. Would that it were not so. I think Henry is being equally naive - if a vendor were required to fix every last bug prior to shipping a new release, we'd still be running on ENIACs. I constantly struggle with my current client trying to force more fixes into the latest release, only to be told that the release has to be shipped some day and that the latest bug I found doesn't merit holding an entire release. And of course some things just never get tested because the vendor would rather forget they even have the code. The "ged" command comes to mind as one example. There is more to shipping product than finding bugs and fixing bugs - one must eventually decide it's soup and send it out to the masses. -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!" -- Ken Thompson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Shipping bogus code (was: Re: prototypes required ?) Message-ID: <18632@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 23 Oct 90 14:20:40 GMT References: <14164@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2150@lupine.NCD.COM> <27066@mimsy.umd.edu> <2173@lupine.NCD.COM> <27098@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Oct22.231028.24623@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Followup-To: poster Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 23 X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die.