On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 6/11/26 1:15 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 06:36:31PM +0930, Tim via users wrote:
Windows users are used to that. So used to it that they don't question endless screw-ups, it's par for the course. They have no ideas that it's crap programming that crashes, computers shouldn't be doing it.
In early 'C' days I had to deliver a working program that happened to dump core at exit. Try telling the customer the program is OK. Only happens on your computer, not ours.
The development system had no problem with main trying to return a 60 byte structure but the custumer's machine did.
I can write a program, spend three days figuring out any and every way a user can screw it up, set it down in front of the user, and in three microseconds the users hands me my lunch.
The USS Yorktown had a bit of a problem in 1997. A crewman accidentally entered a blank into an arthmetic field in a database program. When the program tried to divide by blank, i.e. 0.0, it crashed. So far, so bad. The computer was running Windows NT 4.0. Somehow, the crash took it down. The computer was running the ship which was paralyzed for more than two hours. -- Michael [email protected] "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
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