Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!rutgers!im4u!esc-bb!halley!bc From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Please Don't Post Buggy/Untested Code Message-ID: <306@halley.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 08:03:09 EST Article-I.D.: halley.306 Posted: Mon Nov 30 08:03:09 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 04:29:29 EST References: <5116@utah-cs.UUCP> <5747@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX Lines: 25 Keywords: responsibility, craftsmanship, hubris In article <5747@ncoast.UUCP> crds@ncoast.UUCP (Glenn A. Emelko) writes: > > In summary, I suggest this: > > IF YOU DON'T WANT BUGGY CODE FROM THIS NETWORK, GET OFF THE NETWORK. > > In the mean time, I'll be just happy to recieve all the buggy code you'd >like to send me. I agree with Glenn in sentiment and almost in totality. The only exception I would take is that the degree of effort just to ensure that the shar file is constructed correctly and make files actually work is really minimal, and the effect that such errors have is to consume *many* times the productivity in discovery than it would take just to double-check the posting. PLEASE: Don't anyone quit posting ANY sources. PLEASE: Just take the couple of minutes it takes to get the posting itself done right. I'll live with the bugs. -bc -- Bill Crews Tandem Computers Austin, Texas ..!rutgers!im4u!esc-bb!halley!bc (512) 244-8350