RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And the win32 API, well, I worked with Windows APIs for years, and I've
> never seen a worse API.  But that's just my judgment.

I have. Anybody remember the one that (I think) was called "Win32s"?
Microschlong put it out there while Lose95 was still in development,
inviting developers to write to it, but cautioning them that it was
temporary.

Then when Lose95 came out, the other shoe dropped, and we saw just how
much of Win32s was temporary, and just how temporary it was: NOTHING that
ANYBODY wrote to it was any good any more, and EVERYBODY who wrote
ANYTHING to it learned that they'd just wasted hundreds of dollars on
useless development tools, and spent several months engaged in a
self-indulgent act that probably ought not be mentioned on a family list
server (but think about  Reverend Johnson, in Blazing Saddles: "Oh Lord.
Do we have the strength to carry on this mighty task in one night? Or are
we just . . .")

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JHHL