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: 103376,1c672d5b3cfa54cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: "Bugs" (Was: Anyone could give a complete and yet small Date: 1997/01/11 Message-ID: <97011113060854@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 209277238 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1997-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle writes: > Following on the proposition stated by Mr. Maggio, we may ask the > question, "Does all software contain mistakes?" > Oh.. I don't know. It would seem to me that one could write a sufficiently small program which contained no "mistakes" - provided one was real careful about stating the requirements. Does anyone doubt that a "perfect" program could be written to satisfy the requirement: "Output the result of adding 2 and 2"? I think after you get to a certain size in a software project, "mistakes" are inevitable - we are only human, after all. And of course one can always start debating "that's not a bug - it's a feature!" or "it's not a bug in the software - it's a bug in your requirements!" just to obfuscate the issue a little. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson ===============================================================================