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From: Johnathan Price <email@jprice.force9.net>
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Subject: Bugs, Bugs and More Bugs
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 21:48:21 +0100
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Call me picky (or critical), but this IDE lark has more bugs than Mr
Buggy's Bug Factory.

Here we go with the inexhaustive list -

 1) Stars after includes causes exceptions #include"hello"*
 2) Sometimes 'untouches' files, sometimes doesn't.
 3) Calling a prototype without a procedure - link error, with no
indication of problem.
 4) Opening a comment at the end of a procedure without closing it -
exception.
 5) Window snap, it's a pain - turn it off please.
 6) Sometimes, Make doesn't work, totally ignoring request - quit and
reload fixes it.
 7) Window redrawing (as mentioned before) bit dodgy.
 8) Renaming groups, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't
 9) Saving a file with the 'same as' sometimes adds it to the project,
sometimes doesn't, and sometimes it's editable, sometimes it isn't -
remove it and add it yourself.
10) Need I go on.

Do the words testing, mean anything, bug hunting? - pah! - thing of the
past...

Is it whats called a 'non-mature product' i.e. rushed out in time for
the playstation release?

Let me know - it'd be great if I didn't have to quit a reload every ten
minutes...

Cheers