Aaron Konstam wrote:
I would hate to put some rationality into what is otherwise a great
discussion, but have any of you tried to create a system of any size
with useful (that is useful to every user) error messages. It is pretty
tough.
This is one of the reasons as Fred Brooks comments in his book "The
Mythical Man-Month" it takes 9 times as long to create a software system
that can be used by people in general than a system that only your use.
From an old fortune cookie file:
"Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error
condition you don't know how to handle."
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
