From: Marin Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Bugs or Mistakes?
Date: 1999/11/17
Date: 1999-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3832E75B.2B6E7E1E@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80i9la$i9e$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net
Richard D Riehle wrote:
> In my experience, the word "bug" is often used as a euphemism
> to deemphasize personal responsibility for a set of mistakes.
> Many programmers do not take a "bug" as seriously as we might hope.
But even the word "mistake" implies a lack of personal responsibility. How
many times have we heard a press secretary from some government agency or
politician's office announce to the press "Mistakes Were Made" when the
reality is "so-and-so committed a crime punishable by law".
Perhaps "design defects" is a more accurate description of what we commonly
call "bugs"
MDC
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-12 0:00 Bugs or Mistakes? MaryAnn Atkinson
1999-11-13 0:00 ` M.
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Marin Condic [this message]
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Michael Stark
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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