Subj : Re: Not debugging?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 11:18 am

Phlip wrote:
> 
> Greg Menke wrote:
> 
> >> You describe a legacy situation - someone else invented this bizarro
> >> hardware, and legacy situations require debugging to learn their
> >> characteristics.
> >
> > No I don't.  I describe a realtime system- or even a simple device
> > driver.  There are lots of those, new and old.
> 
> The define "legacy" as "requires debugging".

That's a bizarre (at best) definition of "legacy"...
 
.....

> Realistically, you are apparently relentlessly testing, and admittedly in a
> "legacy" situation that prevents you from using tests to make the hardware
> more bug resistant. Carry on!

Scratch the "legacy" and you have a reasonable description of much of
embedded system development.

The "trivial" upgrading of the emulator is <definitely> an ideal state
in most instances, too...

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