Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On May 12, 10:40 am, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Rather, adopting DOS seems quite
> > frankly the most far reaching mistake that computer dependent
> > industry has committed, the consequences being loss of both
> > software quality and---far worse---a collective loss of any knowledge
> > of what quality software might be!
>
> Not true. Quality software can be written on any OS. "A poor carpenter
> blames his tools." Many successful things have been written for DOS,
> not the least of which are Lotus 123, MS Word, Turbo C++, Turbo
> Pascal, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and a bunch of ports of GNU
> tools.

Seems right.  Actually, I find Georg's assertion puzzling.  The
quality of software has to do with the experience of the people
writing it, and with the design principles (or lack of) that the
software developers apply or fail to apply.  Carefulness is a factor,
of course.  The choice of language is a smaller factor, but as we know
on c.l.a a language can help support or hinder good software design
principles.  Hardware limitations can be a small factor, since it's
harder to write good quality software when your memory space is
limited.  The choice of OS seems to be one of the least important
factors of all.  It's really hard for me to imagine how the choice of
DOS versus other operating systems available at the time (or
potentially available) could have any significant impact on software
quality at all.

                             -- Adam