Re: [SLUG] GGRRR (not really Linux related)

From: Glen Canaday (tuck@acer-access.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 18:42:13 EDT


Thank you, Ramiro :)

        Glen

On Thursday 10 May 2001 12:01, you wrote:
> Dear Windblows patient:
> In the morning
> Take two computers with Windblows installed on them.
> Using a bootable Linux diskette format both hard drives (make sure this
> is done one after another one).
> Install Linux on both machines.
> Rest.
> Call me in the morning.
> The Linux psychologist.
> Tux
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2001 19:13:13 -0400 Glen Canaday <tuck@acer-access.com>
>
> writes:
> > <rant>
> >
> > I'm *really* trying to keep my attitude about M$ under wraps. I work
> > at a
> > software company that sells a program that runs only on, you guessed
> > it,
> > Windows. I just got a copy of the source to this program today
> > (under NDA, of
> > course) and the damn interface is written in VB 3!! This is a
> > thousand dollar
> > app and that lazy ******* programmer didn't even have the decency to
> > use MFC
> > so that the interface can be changed as the program evolves. The
> > Visual C++
> > ide he used's environment is modeled after a Unix environment -
> > proof can be
> > found by the simple use of make and quite a few matching command
> > line
> > switches which I bet at least 80% of those who code apps for Windows
> > never
> > even notice. This code is wrought with gotos and lacks even the
> > least
> > explanatory comments. I wanted to port this as it would fill a hole
> > in Linux
> > that's not likely to be filled by anyone else any time soon, but to
> > do that,
> > I'll have to rewrite 60% of it from scratch. I'm not even sure I can
> > do it
> > now. If the Windows developers write in a style anything like this,
> > it's
> > amazing they have not been sentenced to life in an oubliette, so
> > they can
> > stew over what wrongs they have commited against the software
> > development
> > community for all eternity.
> >
> > </rant>
> >
> > I think I'm ok now.
> >
> > Glen
>
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