Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!amdahl!kevin From: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IEEE libraries Keywords: IEEE, GURU, Death, Horror, AINU (Amiga Is Not Unix) Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 88 12:59:32 GMT References: <1356@percival.UUCP> <358@boing.UUCP> <1570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <7096@well.UUCP> <731@super.ORG> Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 40 In article <731@super.ORG> rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes: >In article <7096@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: >>I don't see a reason to react so strongly against GURU conditions. It >There is just one reason. when people see them they get upset, esp. >people like J Pournelle who, like it or not, really can affect >how many amiga's get purchased. I had this multiple code bug in my code for a year and didn't even know it. Once I found it, it took me a few days to shoot. Looking back, I would prefer to have had a recoverable GURU rather than no report at all. I would have known instantly that there was a bug, not a year later. I think fixing the problem is better than patching around it. > Dale makes a good point that the code SHOULD be perfect. But we >all know (or at least i think i know) how likely this is. If the >tradeoff is slow suffocation (libraries hanging around that are >no longer open) vs. even a recoverable GURU, i vote for suffocation. You are refereing to run time suffocation. Dale and Stuart are talking about long term operating system suffocation. > Now a library could attempt to keep track of when bogosity occurs. >That's a whole nother issue. and of course the right answer is >resource tracking. But we have to use what we have, not what we should >have. This is the right answer, but is a system issue, not just an IEEE library issue. >ron kevin -- UUCP: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,seismo,oliveb}!amdahl!kevin DDD: 408-737-5481 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 [ Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed ] [ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]