Jean-Pierre Coulon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 
> > There is a tiny but growing movement to standardize software release
> > numbering.
> 
> There is a not tiny but already grown up movement among software
> developpers to manipulate their intructions till their software seems
> to work by chance, and make incessant bufgix releases! :-) Can't
> developpers think a bit more and write the correct software from the
> beginning?

that is, in fact, nearly impossible, except by chance.

speaking as an one time (commercial) software developer, i can name more
problems that arose from mistakes by the commissioning people, than
arose from errors on my part.

robin

(incidentally, the english word is "developer"; i presume the french
word has two letters "p"...)
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