Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
True, OTOH it is much easier to find a design flaw than to generate a good, solid design.
Agreed.
if it's so much easier to find flaws, how come so many thing are released w/ so many flaws?
I don't know, but I guess one factor is that it is much easier to identify a design flaw than to actually fix it. Also, there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what qualifies as a design flaw and what not. For example, despite the success of the STL a lot of people still seem to be happy with libraries that offer only runtime type safety (and require lots of casting), even if it is clear that an approach offering compile-time type safety is feasible. Regards, -- Andreas Huber When replying by private email, please remove the words spam and trap from the address shown in the header.