RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The number of bugs in a single Microsoft program is higher than we
allowed in all of BPCS during the System/38 days.  Heck, the number of
security alerts in Windows is higher than the number of bugs of all
kinds we had in BPCS.

I truly believe that the lowered standards of the general community as
it pertains to software can be almost entirely attributed to Microsoft.
Prior to the ability of Microsoft to shove bad code down people's
throats through unfair business practices, bad code (and bad
programmers) didn't survive.  Now people are USED to rebooting, and to
reinstalling, and to software crashing and behaving incorrectly and
counter-intuitively.

And that's just plain sad.

Joe

> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> Granted, the barrier to entry in the PC market is so low that any
schmoe
> can write and release code, but you can't blame a programmer's
stupidity
> on MS.