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In article <630@myrias.UUCP> cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
>There seems to be two sides to the argument about what to do when a library
>use-count goes negative. One side wants a GURU (possibly recoverable) so that
>the offending program will be found quickly and fixed. The other side wants
>no more GURUs, because they make the machine look bad.
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>Part of the problem is a difference in philosophy, I suspect. Some people
>want a perfect world with no bugs; others just want things to usually work.
>I lean towards the former, personally.

There is no such thing as a "perfect world with no bugs".  That's a utopistic
ideal.  Bugs are here and will always be here.  No matter whether you write
software for UNIX or AmigaDOS.  I sincerely believe that making the Amiga
OS more "recoverable" to application errors doesn't imply that all of a sudden
I'll start writing sloppy code.  In fact, if I know that the system will show
a flashy thing saying "Task A-Talk closed library too many times", I'll be
even more motivated to make sure that such a thing does not happen.

While the "Guru Meditation" might have HAD some Zen meaning to the original
Amiga Developers/Designers, it clearly gives the End User and potential 
purchaser of the Amiga a pretty sloppy image.  You see, if you are running
PC DOS and the machine crashes, you know which program did it.  On the Amiga,
it could be ANY of the programs currently running.  The end result is that
the system software often gets blamed when in fact it was an application
(as in the case of the negative library count) that screwed up.  Resource
tracking would be great, but with the current CBM software resources it is
out of the question.  On the other hand, there are a few things (like the
recoverable library closing) that should not entail great changes and still
have a considerable effect on the "image" of the Amiga as a computer one can
"rely on".

Now back on to the reproduction business. Gee, I've been married 7 years and
still have no children.  I guess I am programming too much :-) [only 160 bytes]

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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