I haven't looked at the bug report, but you have
an interesting question.
1. You may have reported something which is not a bug,
but represents a misunderstanding of what the program
is supposed to do. (This is very common, though it
may not apply to your report of course).
2. The particular feature you exercised was not written
30 years ago, but was written by a user -- much like yourself,
perhaps -- and since it was not central to the system's
operation, has not been tested. It may have been written
in the late 1970s.
3. Much of this system has not been revised since
1982, so that the last 20 years (when only the commercial
version was under development) don't exactly count.
4. I hope the bug gets fixed now that it has been
identified.
RJF
Keltus wrote:
> Hi, new user.
>
> This is not a flame, but I just submitted a desolve
> bug on sourceforge and was just wondering, why do
> trivial bugs still exist on a program this old
> program? they are things my calculator can do right
> and this program apparently has been around for > 30
> years. Now, I don't want to seem harsh because I
> certainly could not do anything even close to this,
> but it would be nice to be able to do problems without
> having to check over the answer
>
> regards,
>
> Jeff
>
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