On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 22:28 -0700, Dave Close wrote:
> The difficulty comes in defining "what {it} is supposed to do". If I
> buy an IC measuring less than 0.2 cm2, I get (or can get) hundreds of
> pages of documentation on what it does and does not do, exactly how it
> does those things, and test results. If I buy a piece of software as
> complex as a database, I get something called "getting started" and
> that's it. How can you prove they didn't do what they promised when
> they never really promised anything?Well, databases used to (and still should) have a manual defining its functions, and the required syntax to use them. It's not the kind of software that you can randomly just see what it does. Of course it's up to you to construct sensible logic for how to work your data. That's the curly bit. It's hardly the software's fault if you upset things by having a function that divides one data entry by another, and you never checked for and disallowed a non-zero entry. But if encountering an inputted zero causes it to have a giant meltdown and go on a rampage trashing all saved data, rather than simply fail a function, I would blame it for that. And you don't expect a word processor to bomb out simply because you tried to make a highlighted word bold text. But we've probably all seen computer crashes just as stupid as that. I learnt to CTRL-S save as I go along, just about every paragraph, thanks to things like that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
