Re: Program bugs and Game bugs

[jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <34FDC3E6.589FA741@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>Jeffrey Robertson wrote:
>> 
>> In article <34FC1553.B254FD46@swbell.net>,
>> Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Anyway, a project like Wolf3D is a _lot_ of work. If, with a
>> >deadline closing in, you see a way to save time or memory by making a
>> >possibly risky ToolBox CALL, you are, probably, going to do it.
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> Until you've made the toolbox call, and discovered that the toolbox
>> (ie, the OS) has a bug, I can't imagine how anyone could be so
>> paranoid as to consider the call "possibly risky". ....
>>
>
>     It did, after all, lead to crashing.

I meant *before* discovering the OS was buggy!
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