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- From: mtm@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (Mike Macgirvin)
- Subject: Re: More bugs gopher1.1b1 (beta programmers as well as code)
- Message-ID: <mtm.722068331@CAMIS>
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- Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <BxrI8o.Ir0@alsvid.une.edu.au> <1992Nov16.185158.1983@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:32:11 GMT
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- lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
-
- >Okay, alright, point taken... I come from the hippie programming
- >school.. I like to get stuff mostly working. I let the AR's
- >like yourself fix my little bugs :-)
-
- With all due respect, Paul, I sure hope you're wearing
- something flame-retardent.... we all respect the work you've done,
- but we all wish it worked better.
- Why are you using a string library anyway? You're not storing
- strings with embedded nulls that I can see...
- Oh well, I should probably mention that it's getting very
- difficult to justify why I'm spending such a high percentage of my
- time troubleshooting one application which is only used by a small
- handful of people currently. I have several thousand applications and
- hundreds of other people that require my attention.
- It would be a whole lot nicer if we only were dealing the
- "five-hundred year" bugs (see Scientific American this month). But
- with gopher, it's more along the lines of "fifteen-minute bugs". Oh,
- and consider what would happen if the fate of the world and your life
- were dependant on the reliability of the code you create, and write
- all your functions with that in mind. I can't believe that dumping
- core is part of the curricula of even the hippie programming
- schools...
-
- "mike" (Mike Macgirvin) Mike_Macgirvin@MED.Stanford.EDU
- Unix Server Administrator CAMIS Computer Project
-
- PS> I hope I speak for most other gopher maintainers. Consider
- following up to this thread by mail. Coding style issues can produce
- horrific flame wars...
-