RE: Software Vendors

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You would need to define the params of the "bug",
one coders bug is another coders feature.

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Brendan Bispham wrote:

> 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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