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From: felkl@aste16.Berkeley.EDU (Feliks Kluzniak)
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Subject: Re: Can I talk about Parlog here?
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:25:20 GMT
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In article <3056@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew
Huntbach) writes:

|> The developers of new languages need experience
|> and feedback from potential users before doing all the tedious
|> work involved in getting something to the perfection required
|> by a commercial system.

The questions are: is it TEDIOUS to write your program so that it will
not crash? Can you expect only commercial programs not to crash?

I thought writing programs that don't crash (and in general do what they
are supposed to do) is what programming is all about...

But if the "potential users" are happy, who am I to complain? 

-- F.K.