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- From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
- Date: 02 Apr 1996 19:10:16 +0100
- Organization: chaos
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- In-reply-to: Bj÷rn Helgason's message of Mon, 01 Apr 1996 08:06:15 +0000
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- In article <315F8E77.E26@simi.is> Bj÷rn Helgason <bjornhp@simi.is> writes:
-
- David Charlap wrote:
-
- >
- > My point is simply that people who ask "why can't my $100 word
- > processor be completely bug free" don't realize that they're asking
- > the impossible. There are five things everybody wants in software:
- >
- > - Performance
- > - Stability (no bugs)
- > - Features
- > - Cheap (low cost)
- > - On-time delivery
- >
- > It's not possible to get all of these in any non-trivial product.
-
- They are NOT asking the impossible.
-
- There are actually free products available that give you all of the
- above.
-
- You will just have to know where to look.
-
- Well, almost. Say, you find the tool you need and it really does what
- you want and the docs really tell you how, then you get
- * Perfomance (depending on the quality of your C-Compiler and the
- optimization level you select)
- * Stability (depending on the quality of your C-Compiler at the
- optimization level you select)
- * Features (depending on what your platform supports)
- * Cheap (except for the time to search and to get it running)
- * On-Time (if *you* find it and get it working on time)
- It's not all that easy. >;-)
-
- If you don't compile it yourself, its just someone else's choice; this
- does not necessarily make this better.
- --
- - Thomas
-
- greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
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