Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

| But, in the context, I'd have to disagree. Many good products get
| released early in the development cycle to the public, to no
| harm to anyone. GCC, Linux, most open source projects, for
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Which is also a problem with a lot of open source software. That is a
lot of them never makes it past the "I have a plan for a new app"
announcement and then the project dies out. 

I think that one have overstressed the bazaar angle a bit to much. One
needs to at least get to the stage where the program is reasonably
usable to start attract users and then try to get more people to
help. 

As for compilers I think this is even more crucial. I would rather
have a JGNAT that works well than an alpha product that makes the
programs crash a lot and thus gets a bad reputation. But it might be
that I for general OS products expect them to be alpha or beta and
crash a lot, I don't expect compilers to do the same. :-)

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