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From: Balrog <brog...@rogoff-darrow.net>
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In article <9f029ecd-20f1-4907-b0ba-
a88d84741...@o6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>, de...@pointerstop.ca says...
> 
> On May 4, 6:49 pm, Balrog <brog...@rogoff-darrow.net> wrote:
> 
> > The person who programmed the devices should be fired. That sort of
> > thing can't happen if they're programmed competently. Each transmision
> > of a core should be similar to a banking transaction in that it either
> > succeeds on both ends or fails on both ends.
> 
> Duh?  Besides the fact that this _isn't_ as serious as banking,
> whatever makes you think it's a programming error?  I've seen it
> happen, and it came down to user error.
> 
> All of your suggestions appear to be in use on Bridgemates.

Duh! Of course it's not as serious as banking but the same basic 
principles apply. I wouldn't describe this situation as the result of a 
programming error. It's more like a hopelessly bad software design and 
implementation effort.

We're all human beings and human beings make mistakes. That's just a 
fact of life. Robust software products allow users to recover from 
mistakes. The simplest example is the "undo" function present in pretty 
much every editor currently in existence.