On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>wrote:
> It depends on what you mean by "hung". If we're talking about "in an > unforeseen state caused by a bug" then of course the HT prevents > detecting this reliably. However in this case I think the OP means > something more ordinary, "not finished yet because there's a lot to do". > This doesn't prevent giving a meaningful progress report. > If you think you know what you are talking about, perhaps you would consider a fixed-fee contract on a perpetual motion machine. >From a practical point of view, all possible states of a program cannot be examined and tested. If you want to think of some extreme state (the assumed hardware gives misleading answers, for example) as a "bug," so be it, but I wouldn't be hiring you to manage anything. Robert.
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