> I think it's seen as the difference between designing a car and changing
its oil.

I think the difference is more like designing a brand new car from scratch,
then make a survey from the drivers / passengers / mechanists / auto
magazines etc  what's wrong with the design, and instead of making a
completely new one again, just modify those problems that are really bad or
can be improve the quality, reliability, fuel consumption etc... "Changing
its oil" is more like an IT staff do with your software in my opinion.

Anyway, debugging is more challenging for a developer like myself, and
having a less feature improved MPLAB like 7.41 is more fun for me than 8.xx
where I have to struggling with disappearing buttons or crashing in the
middle of debugging - or maybe I just have to do the same with my firmwares,
should not debug them? :-D

Sorry for my bitter again, I just really confused about the usability of
this originally great product.

Tamas



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Howard Winter <HDRW@h2org.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

> Martin,
>
> (rearranging in posted order)
>
> > > Funny NYPD wrote:
> > > One possible reason may be: developing new feature is much easier than
> identifying the root-cause of a bug and knowing how to fix it.
>
>  Martin replied:
>
> > As an amateur programmer of "real" software, I can say that I have
> encountered this very often.
>
> And as a professional programmer of real software, I've encountered it
> very often too!
>
> It's usually the case that developers would much rather write new stuff
> than debug existing - especially if they didn't write the latter themselves.
>  I think it's seen
> as the difference between designing a car and changing its oil.
>
> But any decent system has much more time spent on maintaining, bug-fixing
> and enhancing it than was spent on writing it in the first place, so the
> industry
> requirement is for more good code-readers than Prima-Donna writers...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>
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