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- From: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 13:06:50 -0500
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-
- >notice how Microsoft's shitty products caused every user to seek help,
- >write his own "smart utility", and thus generated enormous publicity for
- >the products, including still-wet-behind-the-ears consultants,
- third-party
- >vendors who sold stop-gap solutions, and magazines that thrived on it
- all.
-
- Why are we microsoft bashing in an Ada language news group? Anyway, while
- I am not a big microsoft fan, I shall say that I DID switch from OS2/Warp
- to
- Windows 95 because Warp had many more stability problems than does W95.
- At least in my case it did. If this were an ideal world, we'd all be
- using MACs or
- NeXT computers. :)
-
- I agree, for the most part, with the rest of what you wrote. But at the
- same rate,
- when PC DOS was first written, who would have known how the hardware would
- change as it had? (And continues to change). Also, competition requires
- companies to "rush" products out the door without thorough testing (or
- with the knowledge that bugs exist, but htat they will fix them in a
- future release) because of company A gets a new and widely desired product
- out months or even a year before company B gets their robust version out,
- it will be too late and company A will have cornered the market -- buggy
- software and all.
-
- I am not advocating this. Actually, I quit my last job with a company I
- had been with for 11 years because they started spitting out software with
- known bugs, just because they wanted to get it out fast to compete.
-
- Mike
-