RE: "Microsoft owns 23 AS/400s"

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bob and Joel,

Bob wrote:
>Actualy,it is no harder to write crappy code on the AS/400 then 
>Windows.  In fact, in some respects it is easyier.  Since the OS does 
>such a good job of protecting you and is so forgiving.  Crappy code on 
>Windows has a nasty habit of crashing the entire machine (or worse).

Joel wrote:
>It's just harder to write code that will cause a system crash on the AS/400.
>I think people who write bad code are pretty uniformly distributed by
>platform and language.  I've written bad code on the 400, the PC, Atari ST
>in several different languages.  Stop me before I code again.

I should have been more specific in my use of 'crappy'.  I did not mean 
stylistically crappy, or difficult to 
maintain, or poor design.  Rather I meant the ease with with bad Windoze code 
can trash the system.  It is 
extremely difficult to UNINTENTIONALLY bring an AS/400 down -- and even 
difficult to intentionally do it.

And since when did code that crashed a Windoze system force a developer into 
fixing it?  Only when people stop 
buying and using it will it get fixed -- or the fixes are bundled as a new 
version!  Users expect computers to 
crash -- that's what they do isn't it? -- and until users demand better quality 
software (and of course, are 
prepared to pay for it) we'll continue to suffer at the hands of the marketeers.

Ahh, my spleen is vented now, I shall refrain from further posts on this 
subject -- at least until the bile 
builds up again.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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