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Re: Clipboard fetching

Date 2012-04-22 00:54 +0100
From Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Clipboard fetching
Message-ID <7bce218452.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <a17dba65-dd1e-4e9c-85ba-06dd6a048544@i2g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <ac69948352.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <94d31ec7-870a-4327-8793-964aaf65274f@f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> <89dcd28352.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <almarsoft.5844706080633621917@news.orange.fr>

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In message <almarsoft.5844706080633621917@news.orange.fr>
 on 21 Apr 2012 Rick Murray  wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:32:05 +0100, Matthew Phillips 
> <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Testing against badly-written software is more enlightening.
> 
> Just so long as your brain is engaged well enough to be able to tell 
> if subsequent faults are your code, the buggy other application, or 
> something wrong in the API itself (rare, but not impossible).

That's true.  Testing against software you trust is best in the early stages
of development, and then testing against bad later will help you make your
software more tolerant.

Any recommendations for bad RISC OS software?!

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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Clipboard fetching Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-16 09:04 +0100
  Re: Clipboard fetching Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-19 17:29 +0200
    Re: Clipboard fetching Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-04-19 16:18 -0700
      Re: Clipboard fetching Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 23:09 +0100
        Re: Clipboard fetching Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-04-21 01:18 -0700
          Re: Clipboard fetching Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-21 10:32 +0100
            Re: Clipboard fetching Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-04-21 04:26 -0700
              Re: Clipboard fetching Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 00:56 +0100
            Re: Clipboard fetching Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-21 16:14 +0200
              Re: Clipboard fetching Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 00:54 +0100
                Re: Clipboard fetching Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 05:37 +0200
                Re: Clipboard fetching Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 05:42 +0200

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