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From: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/17
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Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
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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