On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:34:43 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Visual Studio 2003 SP1: 400+ Bugs Fixed
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> | Next up: Visual Studio 2005 SP1. An update on the whereabouts of that
> | fix pack is coming in the next couple of weeks, company officials said.
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,2005291,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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> And, ironically enough, that's the program one allegedly uses to construct
> software and debug it. It's as ironic as WGA/AV software used for malware
> infiltration. No wonder Windows (as well as other Microsoft software) is
> such a mess.
Hrm. On the one hand I'd tend to agree. On the other... well... even
something as "simple" as a C compiler is damnably hard to get completely
correct - see, for example, the near-total lack of conforming C99
compilers in existence. Now add a much more complex language such as C++.
Plus support for umpteen other things.
Frankly, 400 bugs in an app - a suite, really - of this scope isn't
terribly surprising. And VS is actually one of the few things MS makes
that's actually fairly pleasant to work with.
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