Steve Anderson wrote:That is true. but does anyone want their errors made public prior to others 'in the know' at least having a cursory a glance at it? In whatever format it may take?
Certainly, if there are "others in the know", it is obviously better for them to have "a crack at it" first.
Alas, I think most of us work in isolation and this forum, or the newsletter is the first appearance of our work to the outside world.
Certainly, in the case of my software, there is little opportunity for peer review in the true sense of the word - there are not too many people willing to sift through reams of c++ code. It definitely is a case of "publish and be damned". But that's ok, it's published in the hope that it will be useful to someone, if it's not they don't have to use it. At least they won't have wasted a great deal of time or purchased expensive components etc. Having said that most mistakes are really just minor things that are picked up during debugging anyway. I suppose "newbies" have a bit of a hard time if it is an electronic circuit and they aren't "wizards" at it yet. But hey! that's what this forum is, at least partly, for isn't it? To help them that is.