I see what you mean, and I think you see what I mean. However, business customers rarely look at the six bullets you mention, they look at the cost of lost opportunities incurred because you didn't whack off the top three or four obvious optimizations in the first place. They also react rather emotionally when something costs them money.

The first failure of a commercial system should be due to operating conditions WAY WAY outside the contracted scope.

There's a parable that says that the Romans had such good bridges because when completed, the Caesar forced the architect to stand underneath them while the army traveled across them. If only software engineers should believe their lives depended on meeting and exceeding the contracted operational scope.

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In reply to Re^6: Strange behavior: Class::DBI with CGI::Application by halley
in thread Strange behavior: Class::DBI with CGI::Application by johnnywang

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