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From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
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Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 bugs
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Date: 16 May 91 13:58:21 GMT
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In article <1991May15.210031.23270@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
>In article <1991May14.170431.1509@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan) writes:
>>
>>I suspect that we're about to see a large-scale exodus of former Clipper
>>users to other products. Nantucket blew it once with the first release
>>of 5.0, and now it appears that they have blown it again.
>>
>>I hear Fox is coming out with a new compiler for FoxPro...
>
>K.,
>
>I suspect that you don't know what you're talking about.
>
>Send me one of your applications, I'll push all the wrong buttons and post
>a message about how terrible it is.

Ah, so according to you, Clipper is perfectly bug free and the only errors
are the result of users "pushing the wrong buttons"? It seems clear that
you are the one who doesn't know what he's talking about. The trade
press took Nantucket to task for their initial release of 5.0. Their
users took them to task. They felt it necessary to provide a BUG FIX
release, 5.01. Clearly, 5.00 was too buggy for a "real" release. In my
book, using your customers as your quality control department is BLOWING
IT. 5.0 needed much more testing, but clearly Nantucket felt great
pressure to release it because it was already MANY months late, so they
shipped it before it was truly ready. As a result, users suffered. That
is what I call BLOWING IT.

As for 5.01 fixing all the bugs of 5.0 as you seem to believe, care to
explain how a program, written from scratch in Clipper 5.0 and working
perfectly, SUDDENLY BREAKS when compiled under 5.01? No external 3rd
party libraries were used, it was all "native Clipper" code, and not one
line of code was changed, merely the compiler version.

Feel free to worship Nantucket as the best, most bug-free software
development environment in the universe. Those of us with a grip on
reality will probably be moving along to something better as soon as
possible.