On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:08:11 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >> Oh we never use the product > >It is a real bad sign when any software company does not eat its own dog food. > You're requiring a person who develops, tests, uses, and documents the product; an unlikely combination of talents. Particularly, most coders are not good tech writers or are unable to view the product with an unbiased eye.
It's a boon when a compiler is implemented in its own source language. >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Colin Paice >Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:45 AM > ... >Many a time I've asked myself, "why is this solution so complex". It is a >simple problem. Simple problems need simple solutions. I should not have >to configure a 7,000 line rexx program! > (Cite? But I don't doubt it. And GNU Autoconf?) >I remember one tester saying "Oh we never use the product - we have >automation which runs all of our tests for us. > But such a test suite should include extreme cases. I once reported an error in the SDSF API for SYSOUT,LRECL=32753. Support (grudgingly?) agreed to fix it, but only for LRECL>=32753, lest some customer, somewhere, had come to depend on the brokenness, perhaps only by compensating for it. Compatibility can be a curse. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
