Phil Taylor wrote - > That's the problem with live editing. The parser has to be > absolutely bullet-proof, as the user can hit it with absolutely > any combination of symbols. There is really no way you can > test it enough either. That's one reason why I kept BarFly > free for several years while under development - I needed the > whole community of users to use it and tell me about the bugs > in order to get it to its current state.
I must admit that I have thought "If I give Abacus away free I don't have to worry so much about how good it is. I'll let other people find the bugs." That's more or less what I did with Abacus 1.0.0. I've done a lot of work on the next release so I think I'm entitled to a little recompense. I'm not saying there will be no errors but we are talking shareware not big software house. Bryan Creer By the way, I don't seem to be getting Phil Taylor's postings direct, just quotes in other people's. Is this happening to anyone else? To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
