From: hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil Subject: Re: Aiming at version 1.0 Date: 1 Apr 1993 00:09:16 -0500
| The trouble with version numbers is they're the most relative,
| subjective concept of all computer science. What does 1.0 mean to
| you? An end or a beginning? The software testing projects I've been
| involved in at my company taught me that although a rushed project
| fails in reliability, the release that must have *everything*
| [marketing wants] never gets released.
[...]
| IMHO, we're already close enough. Some features that are still in
Indeed. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall seeing a note once
that said "as soon as we can get an init/login going", or something like
that. This was a year ago or more (0.12?). Funny how you can get
sidetracked like that.
| (P.S. Yes, I work for a slimy, filthy, capitalist-pig enterprise.
Oh well. I s'pose that when you get right down to it, so do I. ;-)
-Hutch
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Bob Hutchinson
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
(hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil)