[Sussex] Re: C programming help - again!

[Steve Dobson]

Captain

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Captain Redbeard wrote:
> BTW Steve, you were right when you bet I was not
> "almost there".  My program seemed to be finished
> and compiled without problems but it had the
> annoying habit of that it crashed "sometimes" when
> it ran, not consistently or in the same place so I
> thought that there was a "slight" error somewhere
> that needed minor modifications to get it stable.  I
> ran Valgrind on it to see what it would find.  The
> result: it notched up 30,000 errors and stopped
> counting!  Oh well, back to the drawing board!

There is an old rule in software programming.  90% of the
work takes 10% of the time.  If you feel your "almost
there" then you probably think you've do 90% of the work.
So now you can guestimate how long it will take to do the
remaining 10%.

Steve