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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 bugs
Message-ID: <1991May17.213946.18478@pegasus.com>
Date: 17 May 91 21:39:46 GMT
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In article <1991May16.135821.5096@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan) writes:
>
>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

I don't believe I said that 5.01 is "perfectly bug-free" and would likely
not use those words.  Anyone who has spent any time in the computer industry
would realize that such a statement is fundamentally unproveable.  There is
no software that is bug-free.

You can quote the trade press anytime you want, PC Week is routinely called
PC Weak by many, InfoWorld is not too much better.  I was interviewed by one
of InfoWorld's Bureau Chiefs, who didn't print my comments because they did
not jive with the story he wanted to print.

I guess I'll remain puzzled did you not want Nan to release a bug-fix ?
>
>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.

Thanks but I don't worship software, I use it.  I use Clipper because it
solves my problems.  I don't understand your delay "you'll move along as
soon as possible", move today, purchase Borland's C++ or grab a copy of
Zortech C++ and pickup Microsoft's Windows SDK.  If you're waiting for a
language to be developed to suit your own personal beliefs I think you
have a long wait.

In fact, develop one of your own, I'll buy a copy, yours would be perfect
your tech support staff would have CS degrees and upgrades would be free
if they were necessary at all... let me know when it's finished.

tom