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Re: What do we want in Carbon? (was Modern C++)

On 11/7/03 5:00 PM, Eric Schlegel didst favor us with:

>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 1:20 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> Hey, perhaps in some of those cases you could introduce a time delay
>> in the
>> code path that works around developer-induced problems. Then the code
>> would
>> work, but there'd be a performance hit to motivate the developer to
>> fix his
>> code. hehehe
>
> Actually, we do something very like that. When we introduce workarounds
> for a specific application, we (almost) always tie the workaround to a
> specific version or versions of the application - usually, the
> currently shipping version. So if FileBuddy version 22.4 happened to be
> incompatible with Mac OS 10.9, we would add a workaround that only
> applies to version 22.4; when you ship version 22.5, the workaround
> will cease to apply. We also always notify the developer of the problem
> that we find. That way, the developer has both the knowledge of what is
> needed to fix the bug, and an incentive to fix it in the next version
> of the application.
>
> -eric
>
Oh, very cool.

Larry
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