From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: <38523EBA.81ADA54E@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559331014 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82opns$7k2$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net> <384ffd52.888393602@newsnew.draper.com> <82p3vo$k8v$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 944914302 203.35.118.1 (Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:11:42 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:11:42 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard D Riehle wrote: > > In article <384ffd52.888393602@newsnew.draper.com>, > rracine@myremarq.com (Roger Racine) wrote: > > >Why don't you look up the meaning in Robert's reference? There is no > >difference. A bug is a mistake that has not been diagnosed. The > >cause is not known, but the effect is seen. As if there were a bug in > >the system mucking things up. > > Ah, but we see the term being used, instead, for mistakes that are > diagnosed, simply not yet corrected, as in "known bugs." Further, > you have just acknowledged that a bug is just another word for > a mistake. Thank you. > By this meaning, a "debugger" must be an application that removes mistakes from your program. If only! :-) Cheers Geoff