RE: Software Vendors

I like to think that a lot of my shareware is as close to bug free as it
gets.  I have a lot of folks using it, and I get maybe one bug related email
a month at the most.  Actually, now that I think about it, I haven't
received one for a while except from someone that was using an older
version.

Just a selfish pat on the back.  We're all entitiled to it now and then.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendan Bispham [mailto:midrangel@black-and-blue.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:24 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Software Vendors
> 
> 
> This has been a long thread, with a few big claims. But is 
> anyone prepared
> to actually post some bug-free code (that actually does 
> something useful!).
> 
> I thought about setting an open challenge; produce a 
> completely bug-free
> program and lay yourself open to the comments of the list.
> 
> But I realised that because most programs are a series of 
> assumptions, made
> because of previous programs, a single (useful) program 
> cannot be bug-free
> in itself, unless it makes no assumptions whatsoever (except 
> perhaps, that
> is executing).
> 
> And isn't that the real problem? A bug-free program is 
> dependent upon so
> many things outside of it's control, that a 'butterfly 
> flapping it's wings'
> somewhere on the system, may cause chaos in the perfect program.
> 
> I will stand corrected with an example.
> 
> NB, should a perfect program be produced, then it will have 
> to pass the same
> tests a Software Vendor is expected to pass: International 
> differences and
> different OS VRMs.
> 
> In anticipation of enlightenment,
> 
> Brendan Bispham
> 
> Black and Blue Software Engineering
> http://www.black-and-blue.com
> 
> 
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