RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

This is a tough discussion for me because in my heart I believe your
position is correct, however Microsoft seems to be the empirical evidence
that I am right. 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 10/09/05 12:57:08
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Trend towards platform specific languages
 
You confuse quality with perfection, Booth.  Quality is a combination of
good programming techniques (none of this Extreme Programming crap) and
proper testing.
 
On the other hand, the analog of what you said was taught to me by Roger
Covey: release version 1 of your product with enough features to call it
by the name.  Let the market then decide what other features are needed.
This way, you won't get lost in analysis paralysis trying to create the
perfect program.
 
But the selection/omission of features is a far cry from releasing code
that doesn't work.  Only a lazy, incompetent and/or unethical programmer
writes code with so many bugs that he can't remove them before release
time.  If you can't write good code, get another job.
 
Apply your world view to the restaurant industry.  You would be sending
food out undercooked and improperly prepared, and only fixing that food
which was sent back.  Yeah, that's the spirit.
 
Joe
 
 
> From: Booth Martin
>
> 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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