I am very much aware of the fact that software is almost never bug-free.
Apart from the first part - where I wanted to direct your attention to
the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse - the rest of my post was written with
some degree of tongue-in-cheek (both in its positive and negative
denotations), which some of you may have overlooked.
Also, I consider it an ironic coincidence in itself that we have got a
new colleague with a doctorate from Edinburgh University that
specializes in software trouble-shooting.-
I have been less complaining that there are bugs in Revolution, the main
point was my irritation that a bug report can still be listed as
"unconfirmed" after 9 months. What use is a bug database when it is
looked at only selectively? And in case described bugs could not be
replicated then I expect some follow-up communication from the side of
the Rev team.
For your convinience I re-quote my post below.
Regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
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1. People around Kassel - and elsewhere - today celebrate the 100th
birthday of Konrad Zuse, the inventor of the first programmable computer.
Some extracts from Wikipedia:
"Konrad Zuse ( 22 June 1910) was a German engineer and computer pioneer.
His greatest achievem was the world's first functional
program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the
program was stored on a punched tape).
Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language,
Plankalkül, first published in 1948."
Zuse developed his computer living in a small town near Kassel. His
Z3-Computer is one of the exhibits in the "Technikmuseum" of Kassel.
2. The University of Kassel this semester added another position of a
"Junior Professor" in "Computational Sciences" to the faculty of its
IT-Department.
The first holder of this position got his doctorate at the University
of Edinburgh. His special field in research and teaching is "The
structure of programming - trouble-shooting and avoidance".
It is as yet unknown whether during his stay in Edinburgh the new
professor had come into contact with Revolution or the Revolution
team, but considering the topic of his work this seems to be highly
probable. Apparently he had taken a look at the Revolution bug
database with its enormous lags in fixing even fatal bugs, e.g.
Report #8275 "Groups: Bugs and features ("last group" broken)?" of
Sept 16, 2009, which astonishingly is still listed as "unconfirmed"
although it contains a recipe to crash Revolution with only 4 lines of
script.
Although this report is now almost one year old, apparently nobody
from Revolution so far has bothered to take a look at this bug report.
It might be a wise move from the side of the Revolution team to enlist
the support and cooperation of our new professor.--
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