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Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10
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According to gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman):
>                        Tzu-Pei Chen
>"The design of AUSROC II was in many ways too "positive". [...]
>Obviously, greater testing of each component may have shown up some
>of these problems earlier.  This simply highlights the very limited
>resources with which the group currently works.

What an obvious straw man, Gary!  You picked an underfunded project,
which by simple lack of money was _forced_ into a schedule that
allowed for little unit testing.  You then use its almost inevitable
failure as a bludgen to beat up the well-funded DC-1 program.

For shame.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10:21 GMT
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