From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/17
Date: 2000-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88h6ii$9em$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k8k69qm9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
In article <87k8k69qm9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
Florian Weimer <fw-usenet@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> wrote:
> Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:
>
> > Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec
> > says: 'How many of you would spend $500 on a piece of
> > software with over 63,000 potential known defects?' It
> > ships Thursday.
>
> 63,000 `potential known defects' (whatever this means) isn't too bad
> for a software product consisting of over 30 million lines of code, is
> it?
Personally I agrree with that. However, ZDNet has an interesting article
disagreeing at
http://www.zdnet.com/zdhubs/stories/special2000/0,9968,2439261,00.html .
I'm not sure I agree with that author's implication that its possible to
write large sotware that is bug-free. But he goes into the economic cost
of all those bugs, and the fact that most of the bugs were in a very few
of the modules. Its one of the best unintentional bits of Ada advocacy
I've ever seen.
--
T.E.D.
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2000-02-15 0:00 Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <RUkq4.1243$dw3.69085@news.wenet.net>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Dang! (was Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <150220001931201946%emery@grebyn.com>
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
[not found] ` <1e66z6d.1a9fzdvtbw6t2N%herwin@gmu.edu>
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-02-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-03-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <38A9C619.790950B0@quadruscorp.com>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <38A9C4ED.C75316F9@raytheon.com>
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Windows TP (Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Vladimir Olensky
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