The bug stops here!

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

There will always be bugs. My bug list is growing, and I'm a bit concerned
about the latest issues to show up with C++ environments. Here is what we
are doing to address these issues and when.

Read more at:

http://www.atozed.com/intraweb/blog/20080713.aspx

[Rita]

Post by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
There will always be bugs. My bug list is growing, and I'm a bit concerned
about the latest issues to show up with C++ environments. Here is what we
are doing to address these issues and when.

The term bug was 1st coined by a lady who's name eludes me
right now. It came about because a real live living bug crawled
in the computers inards and screwed up something mechanical.
In reality there is no such thing as bugs just badly written code.
I wonder how many things we take as bugs in lets say IW are
nothing todo with the way IW is written at all, but your old
bedmates code in the OS ?
Heaven forbid Codegear has code that conflicts with so called
bugs in the OS then AtoZed through no fault of their own get
something working, only 2 be screwed by either M$ rewriting
a function fixing the bug they didnt even know existed or and
the same at Codegear whats the answer OPEN SOURCE.

Rita

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Post by Rita
Heaven forbid Codegear has code that conflicts with so called
bugs in the OS then AtoZed through no fault of their own get
something working, only 2 be screwed by either M$ rewriting
a function fixing the bug they didnt even know existed or and
the same at Codegear whats the answer OPEN SOURCE.

Most people know I'm big into open source, but I also believe in commercial
source. I believe in a mix - the same reason I believe in both libraries and
book stores.

If we want to point fingers though - I can tell you the source of most IW
bugs:

1) The browsers - they have bugs, they work differently than each other, and
we have ot support multiple versions. Its a lot better than say 6 years ago,
but its still a mess.

2) Supporting a dozen or more Delphi IDE's. Its not that each has its own
bugs, but there are differences often where classes exist, i.e. they have
moved units, some VCL's have things otehrs, don't, supporting Unicode and
non Unicode, etc.. Anything that requires an IFDEF is big bug entry point.
Then add to it the varying abilities of the OTA....