It may be old age pickling my brain but I seem to recall that
Microsoft said they didn't feel Windows xxx (I forget which version,
probably 95 or 98) was ready to be released until there were only
28000 known bugs left... Out of the millions of lines of code it's a
tiny defect rate.
And don't imagine that Apple are any better!
Jez
On 28/01/2012, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Simply my true view of the computer and software world after having
> spent 30 years in both application and system software development.
> "Incompetence" is probably too severe since what I really mean is that
> the complexity of the things we build are beyond our ability to
> completely understand them.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/28/2012 5:56 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> Very droll, Chuck, and delightful irony. Or is that sarcasm?
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 02:39, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> Were you ever a software developer? You're not giving simple bugs and
>>> human incompetence their due.
>>
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