From: Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/09
Date: 1999-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34sdrb6u2.fsf@vault83.infomatch.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82p3vo$k8v$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> In my own programs, the "bugs" are mistakes I have made. You
> may call it a bug. I still call it an error. [...]
>
> The real disappointment for me is that no one appreciated my reply to
> the Business Week article. Also, I suspect that those non-software
> people who read it, if it is published, will understand the point I am
> making without being defensive about the terminology. Only the software
> practitioners are likely to object. Interesting...
Well, this software practitioner is not objecting. To me bugs are errors and
are almost synonyms, the difference being that a bug is a particular kind of
error, namely a programming error.
So, I like to call them bugs, since I am a geek, but think of them as mistakes,
since I like to take them seriously.
It is a good thing to be reminded that bugs are our fault, not something that
happens to us and our programs. Thanks.
--
Cheers, The Rhythm is around me,
The Rhythm has control.
Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me,
blaak@infomatch.com The Rhythm has my soul.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak [this message]
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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