Re: Please fix some of the old bugs

This isn't just a software problem. I once found a bug in the
hardware on a VAX by disassembling code that didn't work,
and finding the instruction in the assembly code that was broke.
If you a fair developer, you are stuck in the paradigm of the
language you use, and problems like the above or the one
this thread is about, put you in a tizzy. If you are a great
programmer, you take in stride, figure out where the paradigm
is broke, and work around it.

It will never be the case that your tools are 100% perfect. It just
ain't gonna happen. Remember the problem with the floating point
problems with the Pentium? Even in hardware you have problems
you may have to work around.

-- Larry Maturo


"Don Strenczewilk" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dave Nottage [TeamB]" <rot13.qnivqa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Welcome to software development.

Thank you! After 20+ years of waiting, it's nice to finally be so warmly
welcomed. Looks like I've been doing it wrong all these years, wasting
time fixing bugs when all I had to do was tell the users, "That's life.
Take it or leave it."



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