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Dan BEst wrote:


Expecting the developers to add in code to check for rare events like
this just doesn't happen.

Sorry, but I'm a developer and I ... when you manage 10-20 billion
dollars' investments..

Yeah, I kind of bristled at that one also. I'm a developer too, and
produce software for medical labs. Because of the potential liability
involved (not to mention peoples health), our customers are pretty picky
too. I actually spend much of my time developing interfaces between the
analyzers in the lab and our system. Diagnostics are designed in from
the ground up. There's nothing worse than when something doesn't work
and it doesn't give you any clue as to why it's not working.

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Dan Best
s/v Tricia Jean, Tayana 37 #192

Ahhh, but there is a GIANT difference between what RayMarine firmware is
designed to do, and what your Multi-Million Dollar Investment Software,
or your Healthcare software is designed to do. RayMarine is a "Consumer"
level Firmware system, and needs to fit in caparativly Small Codespace,
when balanced against the Stuff you guys are writing. Why would ANYONE,
with any sense of software smarts, expect to get anything more from
RayMarine, than they get from their Whirlpool Washing Machine, or their
Kitchen Stove? These are Consumer Products, of limited Production runs,
and your expectations are for Mission Critical Software.... Does anyone
else figure these guys are just whiner's......

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Bruce in alaska
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