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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: 26 Apr 2003 19:03:44 -0700
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"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<NXCqa.32967$mZ4.383971@news.xtra.co.nz>...
> "soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
> 
> > NOBODY except computer programmers complain about reliability
> > of Windows.  They might claim it's frustrating, but not
> > unreliable.
> 
> Really? How about some truck drivers who have
> to be put on hold while the Windoze system
> reboots, reloads, gets up to snuff and finally
> prints that piece of paper that would have
> taken about 20 seconds to write by hand?
> Or the poor despatcher who wouldn't know
> Windoze from bit-bucket except that he/she
> needs to reboot it every half-hour or so just
> to get rid of the frozen parts of it and get the
> trucks moving.

Obviously they're only drivers and dispatchers *by day*.  At night, in
the privacy of their own homes, I'll bet they're *computer
programmers*!  They can try to hide it, but Windows knows!

Mike