Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!paul From: paul@tut.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: conquest newsletter #2 Message-ID: <2033@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 17:15:21 EST Article-I.D.: tut.2033 Posted: Fri Nov 20 17:15:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 07:20:17 EST References: <4518@mhuxd.UUCP> <5080001@hpsrlc.HP.COM> <353@gethen.UUCP> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 18 In article <353@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes: < There is never an excuse for posting source for a program which crashes < and burns during normal operation, as conquest does. Never. ... Oh get a grip. Real programs *ALLWAYS* have bugs. Sometimes they are small ones, sometimes large. I defy you to name ONE single program, of non-trival size, that did not have a single bug in it's first version. It never happens, not even for commercial programs. Besides, you expect this person to bullet proof his program to the level of software that is sold, and then give it to you for FREE? Some programmers happen to have the support of some company to do whatever they want to, others not. If you think that everyone can be so generous, you are dreaming... -- Paul Placeway ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!paul paul@ohio-state.arpa, paul@cis.ohio-state.edu