I've worked for a lot of crappy companies, and from what I've seen of most commercial software there are a lot more.
The bottom line rules, if your lucky. If you're not then the IPO rules...


Mishka wrote:

AFAIK, Bob's the normal definition of "bug". What Peter says is... basically it says a lot about the company he worked at.

best,
mishka

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:21:20 -0500, Peter J. Alling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


As a software engineer, the definition we used was that a bug that
didn't cause the system to crash was always a feature. Just a bit of irony.

Bob W wrote:


Incidentally, I disagree with your definition of a bug. I would define
it as a discrepancy between the software and its specification, where
the specification matches the requirements.








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