| Subject | Re: [IB-Architect] Interbase Culture and Open Source |
|---|---|
| Author | Jim Starkey |
| Post date | 2000-03-28T21:20:38Z |
At 02:07 PM 3/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
Jason, the technical term for this is a "bug." There is a well
established division of labor in the computing industry with
regard to bugs. Users work around them. Developers fix them.
Elevating the workaround to the level of architecture is called
a "mistake."
Jim Starkey
>From: "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@...>[snip]
>
>Without this the the optimizer[snip]
>comes up with on its own which would never complete on any hardware in a
>reasonable amount of time.
Jason, the technical term for this is a "bug." There is a well
established division of labor in the computing industry with
regard to bugs. Users work around them. Developers fix them.
Elevating the workaround to the level of architecture is called
a "mistake."
Jim Starkey