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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c473e498c84938dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s04.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Mark A. Biggar" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Orders of Fault Management References: <2mnr9kFnpbivU1@uni-berlin.de> <410796AE.2080800@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.161.48.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s04 1092200180 67.161.48.181 (Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:56:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:56:20 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:56:21 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2661 Date: 2004-08-11T04:56:21+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:06:13 GMT, Marin David Condic wrote: > > >>Also, a "bug" may not truly stop a software application from >>accomplishing its purpose. > > > Which is probably not a bug then. (:-)) No, there are things that everyone would agree are bugs, but just don't effect the usability of an application. For example, if it has an error message with a miss-spelled word ("Fiel not found"), that's a real bug, but it may not be economically worth the effort to fix it. -- mark@biggar.org mark.a.biggar@comcast.net