On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:41 AM, Mledie at aol.com wrote: > > > When you say it is a beta version. What does that mean and what > > significance > > does this have? > > > Programmers refer to software as a "beta" version when it is still in > testing and they're looking for bugs. <cynicism_on> [spoken as a programmer] Marketing and management refer to software as a "beta" version when it's been forcibly removed from the hands of the programmers and the users will be used to do testing. </cynicism_on> <more_cynicism> "Beta" is not to be confused with "prototype", which is when a programmer is told that the code will not actually be released but is just so marketing/management can get a general idea. Then it gets released as a beta. </more_cynicism> > I have found Safari to be very stable, but I've still sent off three > bug reports when pages didn't load correctly, or Javascript wasn't > interpreted properly. I had a quick run around the park with it, and it seemed to do well. Handled my icky javascript over at generationjava.com anyway, which is always my biggest care :) Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
