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- From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Please crash my machine & get it over with!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul19.172956.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 00:29:56 GMT
- References: <mykes.09gx@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
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- In article <mykes.09gx@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>, mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
- > In article <pU-mr*xY0@cecily.UUCP> cory@cecily.UUCP (Cory Cohen) writes:
- >> The issue that I (and most others?) seem too take offense to is:
- >>
- >> Should software deal with ALL possible failures or only the
- >> ones likely to happen?
- >>
- >> The answer is clear. If the software is good, the author will
- >> attempt to deal with EVERY possible failure gracefully.
- >>
- >
- > This is pure nonsense. If AdPro or TurboText or CED or SAS 'C'
- > or any of hundreds of GREAT Amiga software breaks under 1.1,
- > it doesn't mean the software should be thrown away.
- >
-
- I don't think that the poster meant to throw away all of the software that
- doesn't work under 1.1! Probably the person was saying...try to look for all
- of the possible pit-falls of a source code, instead of having a G.A.F. attitude
- about it. It doesn't HAVE to be limited to checking for 1.1, but ANYTHING that
- could crash their machines. I've read a lot of posts about A3000 owners
- getting angry, because some good programs won't run on their machines. I have
- a A2000 myself, so I didn't pay attention to the names of those programs.
-
- Is this a 1.1 vs. >1.1 issue? Or is this a "let's limit the amount of crashes"
- issue? There has been sooooo many posts on this subject, I think a lot of us
- are forgetting what the real issue is. Including myself!
-
- Can we get this issue moved to Bla.Bla.Bla.advocacy?
-
- Joe
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- * Joe Yurick California U.S.A. E-Mail : yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov *
- *** My thoughts & views are rarely my own, much less that of my employer! ***
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- I think, therefore I am...an Amiga owner!
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