Comment Re:Might be a mistake but not where Rob is pointin (Score 1) 436
If you define correctness as "producing the desired results on one particular version of one particular platform", then you have a recipe for non-robust code that won't survive in the real world.
I think defining correctness as "producing the desired results is pretty reasonable. Sure correct doesn't mean robust, but they are different things and this discussion has been about correctness.
Damn, I've been wasting my time. Now I know you didn't properly read the article. He includes the test programs he used.
Not worth responding to, just reinforces that you never looked at the source code
Yeah, I looked at the code. He replaces the sort says the bug is gone, must be a bug in how the sort is used. Sure seems likely but where is the actual bug. If we are going to spend the time giving a case study of a bug I think showing exactly there the bug is and why it is matters. But I suppose reasonable people can disagree.
The main thing this discussion has shown is the existence of different metrics for program quality, i.e. an error and a bad design, one is wrong the other is undesirable but correct (at least for the current program). Both are bad but in different ways and need to be handled using different techniques.
Conference proceedings don't count for much. I can't see any evidence that you know anything about devloping robust programs. Not that I'd expect you to, it is quite a different game to developing verification software anyway (although if the verification software itself needs tp be robust, then we have a problem).
If that is your opinion. But I should note that IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. spend a fair bit of money to sponsor and send people to these things. So someone apparently thinks these proceedings count for a fair bit (and companies that care a lot about building robust systems).
I'll leave my part at that.