RE: Software Vendors

This discussion interests me especially since I started doing some
client/server event driven programming.  "Bugs" means something different to
me now than it did on green screen and I am a lot more tolerant of the
concept itself.  

On the green screen it tends to work or not work  -  fairly simple to be
"zero-defect", but in the world of GUI and client/server that whole paradigm
disappears.  Instead there's all sorts of choices, shared DLL's, and all
sorts of chains of events and unexpected consequences.  In other words,
Green screen errors <> gui bugs. 

-----Original Message-----
From: SIMS, KEN [mailto:KSIMS@SOUTHERNWINE.com]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 3:38 PM
To: boothm@goddard.edu
Subject: Re: Software Vendors


Hi Jim -

>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:27:03 -0800
>From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
>Subject: Re: Software Vendors
 ...
>When people hear of a program that has no bugs, their thought
>turns to the fact that it must, then, be a very small program and
>not do everything they want it to do or it would have to have
>bugs in it.  The more bugs the better the program, right?

My goal is "zero defect programming".  I put that right at the top of my
resume.  That's not to say that I never have bugs in my programs, but I try
to real hard to avoid them, and if one shows up, I fix it right away.  I'm
not a software vendor, but if I were, I'd still have that philosophy.  As
for deliberating putting bugs in software, that's criminal, both
figuratively and literally.  Like you, I'd quit before I'd do that or let it
be done.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
Opinions expressed do not represent those of my employer or anyone else.

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