databases, optimization and open source

[Ben Pfaff]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> I'd love to fix some bugs in Mozilla, but there's not a
> snowball's chance in hell I'll ever find what I'm looking for,
> let alone understand the source enough to fix it... ;)

Depends on the bug.  Some kinds of mistakes are easy to find even
in a very large program.  If it's reproducible then you can
probably do it armed only with some printf() statements and maybe
a debugger.

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"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
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