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: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Patrick Logan Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/04 Message-ID: <7oNH1.7874$f01.5654337@news.teleport.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 387772686 References: <6rfra4$rul$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35DBDD24.D003404D@calfp.co.uk> <6sbuod$fra$1@hirame.wwa.com> <904556531.666222@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <6sf87j$47n$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sh6ic$o8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6shhcq$lid$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sk59r$8e6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6ske0c$16k$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35EF7971.1CDE6B7D@earthlink.net> Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 01:19:15 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In comp.object Charles Hixson wrote: : I hope that you are wrong about what they are doing. I fear that : you aren't. Windowing is a good solution for recovering the data : before saving it into a new format. It's a very bad permanent : "solution". Usually. >From what I've read, the people writing about "windowing" realize it is a temporary solution (the duration of the window). What's *really* scary is the people who indicate they are going to "fix on failure"! OTOH some of these situations could turn into an opportunity for Extreme Programming and building "spike" solutions. -- Patrick Logan (H) mailto:plogan@teleport.com (W) mailto:patrickl@gemstone.com http://www.gemstone.com