Re: Netbeans failure mode

Arved Sandstrom wrote:
But it isn't! 6.5 is up to date. 6.1 is now four minor version number points behind the times. This should be immediately apparent from visiting the NB Web site, Lew. I don't see how any reasonable person can argue in the face of such clear evidence.

6.1 is most definitely not 4 minor version number points behind the times

Yet quite clearly it is, since their Web site announces proudly the release of a shiny new version, and that version is 6.5.

Five minus one is four, as almost any child with passable grades in arithmetic will be willing to confirm for you.

Whether there were actually three intermediate versions or not is immaterial, since I said it is four minor version number POINTS, rather than four VERSIONS, behind. They jumped by more than one presumably because the changes from 6.1 to 6.5 are somewhat greater than those from 6.0 to 6.1 were. Which suggests that 6.1 is "more behind" than if the changes were less significant, of course.

Quibbling over what exactly a change of four minor points actually "means" is entirely beside the point anyways. Really, it suffices that 6.1 is merely no longer the most current version for my point to be made; if 6.5's only change from 6.1 had been to fix a single typo in a three-levels-deep dialog box label somewhere in the NB GUI, it would STILL suffice to make the statement "Your IDE is up to date!", when still emitted by NB 6.1, an erroneous one.

That you're still trying to find excuses for 6.1's error, even in the face of such overwhelming evidence that it has no excuse, is a sign that you are arguing from emotion rather than reason.
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