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  2. From: Bj÷rn Helgason <bjornhp@simi.is>
  3. Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants,comp.edu,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
  5. Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 08:06:15 +0000
  6. Organization: Post and Telecom Iceland, IS-150 Reykjavik, ICELAND
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  14.  
  15. David Charlap wrote:
  16.  
  17. > 
  18. > My point is simply that people who ask "why can't my $100 word
  19. > processor be completely bug free" don't realize that they're asking
  20. > the impossible.  There are five things everybody wants in software:
  21. > 
  22. >         - Performance
  23. >         - Stability (no bugs)
  24. >         - Features
  25. >         - Cheap (low cost)
  26. >         - On-time delivery
  27. > 
  28. > It's not possible to get all of these in any non-trivial product.  
  29.  
  30. They are NOT asking the impossible.
  31.  
  32. There are actually free products available that give you all of the 
  33. above.
  34.  
  35. You will just have to know where to look.
  36.  
  37. -- 
  38. /Gosi , bjornhp@simi.is 
  39. http://www2.simi.is/~gosi
  40. http://www.jsoftware.com
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