Re: Alpha to Numeric converion issue

I often tell folks that when I started working on compilers the big difference that I found between building applications and compilers is that if you make a mistake in an application the users are normally happy when you fix it. When you make a mistake with a compiler, by the time you realize it at least 50 developers have decided it is a "feature".

I once had to remove a bug fix from a compiler on orders from Lou Gerstner's office because a certain very large customer had developed an entire system that depended on the bug - and they were buying multiple machines to run the app!


Jon Paris

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On Apr 25, 2019, at 11:37 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:10 AM John Rusling via MIDRANGE-L
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, i'll defer to you on what people might expect. :-)

Barbara was speaking gently, as she usually does. It's not so much
what people *expect*... it's that there is near certainty that
real-world code out there depends on the existing behavior, and will
break if that behavior is changed.

John Y.
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