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Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question
Date 2015-01-23 20:17 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <cifoi7Fr96gU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <1lyo5s7.h2gt15m0qbeiN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <m9u9ai$pqa$1@reader2.panix.com> <230120151505084815%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On 2015-01-23, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <m9u9ai$pqa$1@reader2.panix.com>, <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
>
>> 
>> From today's email, regarding an update of a program I use -
>> 
>> | Thanks for your help testing.  I am confident that this version will
>> | work until such time as Apple decides to break it again, which they
>> | seem to do with almost every OS X release.
>
> whoever authored that app needs to learn how to write better code.
>
> there is no reason why something should break with almost every os x
> release. well written apps that use publicly documented apis do *not*
> break all that often, if ever.

Yep. I authored one particular Mac OS X app that is fairly popular in
the scripting community, hasn't needed any OS X specific compatibility
updates since 2007, and runs just as well today as it did then.

-- 
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JR

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A page of quotes on the software quality question nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-01-22 21:43 -0700
  Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-23 18:15 +1300
  Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question billy@MIX.COM - 2015-01-23 20:01 +0000
    Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-23 15:05 -0500
      Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-23 20:17 +0000
        Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-26 11:15 +0000
          Re: A page of quotes on the software quality question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 14:42 +0000

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