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- From: dege@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dege Jeffrey Charles)
- Subject: Re: SAS C6.1 datecmp bug [Was: Re: Advice to SAS/C 5.10b users]
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- References: <BzD93n.JCo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <BzEqDF.A5H@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec21.030843.16107@bohra.cpg.oz.au> <BzMJJB.84z@unx.sas.com> <rlcarr.09a3@animato.network23.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:24:59 GMT
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- In <rlcarr.09a3@animato.network23.com> rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro) writes:
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- >In article <BzMJJB.84z@unx.sas.com> jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
- >> Let's see... counting everyone at Commodore (U.S.), plus the people here, plus
- >> the regular poeple we recruited through other means, we had about 70 - 100
- >> people testing the heck out of 6.0. We all thought that was enough...
- >>
- >> Doug was correct. Out of all those people, things can still slip past... for
- >> instance, one of the things fixed in 6.1 over 6.0 was not being able to compile
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- >Slip past? SLIP PAST? How on earth did the MATH=68881 bug manage to
- >"slip past." Even though I admittedly don't use it much, I fail to
- >comprehend how any decent testing procedure could have let that fall through
- >the cracks. It wasn't like it was a subtle, hard-to-reproduce problem.
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- I've been working (HORRORS) with a commercial Basic package that coredumped
- when you called a function in the test expression of a while-loop. I found it
- astounding that nobody had done such a thing in testing or in the year and a
- half since the release of the product. (I am quickly growing to loath Basic
- programmers.) So I'm much less astounded when a vendor lets something slip
- by testing that I would have thought should have been caught.
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