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In article <156@dogmelb.dog.oz.au>, david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
> In article <1991Jan31.035105.14277@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, nnn@po.CWRU.Edu (Nik N. Nik Mahdi) writes:
>> gurus when I run certain softwares. I wonder what's wrong with
> It is the software ** OR ** the interaction between different pieces
> of software. If the software is public domain, its probably bug
> ridden! (though I feel that alot of PD programs recently are generally
> more robust than what we got in 1986..) If it is commercial, you

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> decided I wanted to. ( I feel safe, because one of the first things
> I do to PD programs is force them to crash by doing stupid things
> to them. If it crashes violently, or locks the system, I usually dont
> want to know about it, after all, why should I have to be gentle to
> a bug ridden program!:-).)

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> It can be your fault for running a PD program in the background. 
> At a software house I worked at, PD programs were *BANNED* because
> bugs introduced by them were considered harmful, and unneccesary.
> We had to use commercial editors/compilers/assemblers and utilities
> in general. But that's fine, because what you pay for is usually
> better than what you get for free..

Are Programs so hard to write for the Amiga that every PD prg is bug 
ridden? Or is a bad experience with a minute few. I've used many other 
computer system, with tons of PD/Shareware sw, and I've only had problems 
on very RARE occasions. Case in point, on my ST, I really only use one or 
two pieces of commercial software, the rest is PD/Shareware, and have never 
really had many problems. (I know the chance of crashing is greater in a 
multi-tasking Environment, especially without hardware protection, but 
wouldn't the programmers know how to deal with this?)

How hard is it really to prg for the Amiga? (Just in case I get a new 
computer someday!)

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