Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 09:57:47 08/26/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 17:23:49, KarinsDad wrote: >On August 24, 1999 at 16:52:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >[snip] >> >>I can't believe this is still going on. > >Yes, it is getting kind of old. > >> >>Overstepping the time control can be a bug or a feature depending upon why the >>program does it. This problem was probably originally a bug, although it is >>difficult to know for certain, and when it was discovered it may have been left >>in as an uncorrected bug, or deemed to be a feature, perhaps with a laugh. > >Do you really think that something like this that is undocumented and cannot be >turned off could be a feature? That seems like a very improbable scenario >(unless as you state as a joke). It could be a conscious design decision to >leave it as an uncorrected bug due either to a lack of desire or a major effort >required to correct it. But a feature? A bug is often (and ironically) defined as an undocumented feature.
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