Royal Pain

[James Knott]

Peter L. Peres wrote:
>>>>Perfection is a waste of time...
> 
> 
> Perfection is a waste of *all* the time, forever. Perfection is an
> abstraction. If you wrote something and it appears perfect to you, then
> someone else is going to have to find your bugs. This can be extended to
> an arbitrarily large group of developers and customers. Proof is by
> induction. Additionally, if the audience is large enough then there will
> always be someone who will perceive a feature as a bug. The first step in
> learning how to write code or engineer anything is to know your or your
> processes error rate. Then you will know how large a project you can
> manage, such that it will have a manageable number of bugs.

And of course, it's impossible to prove there are no bugs.  You can only 
fail to find some.
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