RE: FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 19 April 2006 04:44, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM:
> >
> >> [snip]
> >> in microsoft's QA dept.... ;)
> >
> > They have one?  What are the job qualifications to become a member of that
> > dept, I wonder?  I bet even a hippo could apply...
>
>   Yes, actually!  Most of their testing is done by dropping hippos on
> software and seeing what happens.  Usually it breaks.
>   Then they ship it!

This reminds me of the actual testing DEC did for PDP-8 and PDP-11
machines: they dropped a machine on the concrete floor from a height of
precisely 2 meters while it was performing some computation.  If it
continued working at that point and produced correct results, they shipped
it.  Eerie, isn't it?

Oh, and in the words of ESR: "software is largely a service industry
operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a
manufacturing industry".  Just seemed relevant here, somehow... :-)
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_	    pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		old name: Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte."
"But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in
that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"