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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78a1af350f4cf4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Date: 2000/02/17 Message-ID: <88h6ii$9em$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 586774263 References: <38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch> <87k8k69qm9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x29.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Feb 17 16:11:02 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <87k8k69qm9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>, Florian Weimer wrote: > Gautier 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. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.