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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Good news for "Snap" users
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:23:44 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Lines: 58
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- In article <57505@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- > I have some good news for people who stopped using "Snap" by Mikael
- >Karlsson under Workbench 2.04. Since I upgraded to Workbench 2.1, Snap
- >appears to work perfectly!! I'm using Snap 1.62 on a 68030 Amiga.
- >
- > Under 2.04, Snap would sometimes incorrectly copy the text, so a
- >word like "Hello" would paste as "HHHHe" or something like that. This
- >problem seems to have disappeared completely under 2.1.
- >
- > Yay!! :-)
-
- Boo!!.
-
- Hearing stuff like this really cranks my wheel.
-
- It is NOT good that stuff that didn't work under 2.04 now works under
- 2.1 flawlessly.
-
- Why?
-
- It means the program has a bug. And it'll be REAL easy to find, too,
- because 2.1's SetPatch didn't patch all that many of them. And now,
- thanks to C=, that bug will very likely never get fixed.
-
- I'm really getting annoyed with C=. I know they're good guys and all,
- and they're great programmers and engineers, but I'm really getting
- annoyed with the way they KEEP INSERTING KLUDGES TO FIX BUGGY
- PROGRAMS.
-
- If the coders would get off of their lazy asses and FIX the problems
- they have with their software, C= wouldn't have to be continuously
- holding their hand.
-
- There. I've vented enough frustration. This was never really aimed
- at you, dan. More or less just conjecture, and if anyone is the
- target, that would be the author of the program that now "magically"
- works under 2.1, making 2.0 seem broken.
-
- I wish C= would have just kept those damn things out. They've said
- all along "don't depend on odd behavior from system functions" and "do
- it this way". People insist on depending on odd functions, people
- insist on doing it the wrong way.
-
- Break them, C=. Trash every damn program that's like that. Or tell
- us about it.
-
- An AutoRequest that pops up and says "Dear User: You should replace
- program XXX with a newer version or another program because: It tried
- to access the IAddress of a message that was of an incorrect type" or
- something. But don't let it look like suddenly the OS is at fault
- when your magic causes things to work when they shouldn't.
-
- Greg
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