Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
>
> At 03:21 PM 6/29/99 GMT, you wrote:
>
...
>
> >that is the essence
> >of software, it is virtually impossible writing bug-free software
> >even for microsoft.
>
> Bug-free software is theoretically possible (you can proove programs are
> correct), but in practice it is too cumbersome to do for whole programs.
> But better quality than Microsoft provides is possible. I actually think
> they can do it better, I bet they just calculated how much writing better
> software would cost and found out that increased sales would not compensate
> for the extra cost.
>
I think that Windows architecture is just too complicated -- there are
too many compatibility issues. And Microsoft writes generally quite
bug-free software, comparing to others (Oracle).
Anyway, this is not any more subject of this list...
Tambet
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