Re: Trend towards platform specific languages -- MIDRANGE-L

Joe,

When Windows 2000 was released, I recall reading in PC Weekly (sincerenamed) that MS announced that there were thousands of bugs that theyknew 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 doesfor the AS/400, they might be on to something."

I, also, recall Bill Gates publicly (late 80's or early 90's) chastisingIBM as a monolith that swung its weight around. What goes around comesaround. 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

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.