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08/05/2002 16:26:28
 
 
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08/05/2002 15:52:08
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Visual FoxPro
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Conferences & events
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00649984
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>> Not all, but some. When 50 users of a 80,000+ lines of code application
>> discover a total of 2 bugs in 3 years, it's pretty damn good quality work.

> Is that the program that goes:
>
> MessageBox('Hello World')
>
> RETURN
>
> FUNCTION dummy
> * Write 80000 lines of code since pay is based on lines produced
> <<80k lines of code here>>
>
> :)
>
> BOb
>
> PS: What surprises me is the ap I work on, after 8 years people still
> manage to find a bug here an there, and I wonder how it ever survived that
> long without anyone running that combinations of options, etc.

Maybe I am more careful than the norm becsuse I used to code firmware in
Assembly and C and a failure could potemtially mean death to the user...

Or maybe it's because most developers are in for the money and don't give a
damn whether their code works flawlessly... I accepted a major cut in salary
to design computer systems because I felt I was wasting my life as an
actuary and I could make a difference by solving problems that no one else
wanted to touch for fear of failing.

Daniel
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