Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An important point Microsoft has taught the software industry is to get the
software out there, bugs and all.  If people like it, fix it.  If they don;t
like it, forget it, and save the dollars and time  it would have taken to
get rid of the bugs.  The idea of not releasing sofdtware until it is
perfect is just plain silly and wasteful, and in fact probably not possible
given the capacities of normal users.
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 10/08/05 08:25:43
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Trend towards platform specific languages
 
Joe,
 
When Windows 2000 was released, I recall reading in PC Weekly (since
renamed) that MS announced that there were thousands of bugs that they
knew about - and they were releasing it anyway.
 
But the reason that I remember the article is the concluding paragraph:
"If Microsoft ever learned to write operating systems the way IBM does
for the AS/400, they might be on to something."
 
I, also, recall Bill Gates publicly (late 80's or early 90's) chastising
IBM as a monolith that swung its weight around.  What goes around comes
around.  Obviously Bill has a different outlook now the MS is the monolith.
 
 
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Joe Pluta wrote:
 
>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
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>>From: Walden H. Leverich
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>>Granted, the barrier to entry in the PC market is so low that any
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>schmoe
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>>can write and release code, but you can't blame a programmer's
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>stupidity
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>>on MS.
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