Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability)

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

I like the way you think. :-)

There was a time when I was interested in being a "geek" and I got a great
deal of satisfaction out of understanding all the intracacies of an OS and
how to plug software into it and so on. That time is now past. I want to
turn it on and get a job done. The less I need to know about the appliance,
the more time I have free to dedicate to more profitable endeavors. Maybe
I'm atypical of the population of programmers out there, but I think that it
isn't hard to imagine most people appreciating a software product that just
plugs in and starts to work. (Do most people *really* want to spend time
fooling with registry entries, paths, file locations, compile/install
scripts, etc? Or would they rather just plug the disk in, say "Install" and
get started playing with the product? It leaves more time for sitting on the
beach, sucking down a Pina Colada and getting a suntan. :-)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"nicolas" <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote in message
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>
> Have you ever met people considering that computers are just tools ?
> I guess the misunderstanding comes from the fact that
> - Most programmers like computers, this is a hobby, they have a lot of fun
> playing with them
> - the rest of the world use a computer or a software like a TV set, a
coffee
> machine or whatever you want.
> the important point is that it must work more or less, be easy to use,
> nobody cares what's inside ...
> Nobody cares if it comes from the evil Microsoft or the good whatever you
> want ...
> Nobody wants to spend 5 hours reading a doc before a basic use of the
> product
>