Re: Help downloading 6.0.1 installer

[gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade)]

In article <4tp8eb$98p@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>In article <4tnn6k$3hd@eddore.myrias.com>,
>Devin Reade <gdr@eddore.myrias.com> wrote:
>
>>"If it's not reproducable, then it's not a bug."
>
>   Let's expand this to a more real world analogy: crashes (airplane).

[ statement that reproducability is not always an option ]

>Problem is, when it's just me looking for a bug, I'm not going to
>spend a year looking over the code trying to find a bug off some vague
>description. I've got other things to do, like hunt down bugs that
>are a heck of a lot more repeatable-- nobody cares when I crash my
>computer the 5-50 times needed to find a bug.

Of course my comment, like all generalizations, doesn't apply to
every case.  The nature of my work is neither real-time nor mission-
critical systems but rather computationally intensive codes (usually
scientific or EDA) so I can safely make that remark.  I would certainly
not want flight control programmers (I was one once) to take that
attitude. :|

OTOH, not many Apple IIs are used to control missles or Shuttle
reentries, so this is more of a philosophic discussion.
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