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To: John Pitera who wrote (41656)	5/18/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

John, Thank you for the personal comments. Let me tell you one very simple fact of life. S/w has bugs, period. And it can be mathematically proven that every single bug in s/w cannot be remedied. Godel's incompleteness theorem and all, if you want to delve into the details. I have taken part in several y2k compliance Q/A projects. And I probably have fixed several thousands of s/w bugs in my career. Do you know that several mission critical systems in the early 90's were built on such paragons of bug free s/w as desktop o/s's which crashed as often as 5 times a day and databases that didn't have row level locking and would freeze entire systems up on a regular basis? But the human race survived. Strange as it may seem, engineers sometimes do know what they are talking about, even if lawyers, finance types and politicians fret. -BGR.