Re: SP2 vs AOL 9
From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 10/08/04
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:30:09 -0500
johns50718@aol.comdotorg (John Ski) writes:
>>From: dont@agora.rdrop.com (Don Taylor)
>>>9 is the most bloated and buggy version of AOL that they have ever
>>>released.
>>
>>EVERY new version of software is the most bloated and buggy that has
>>ever been released! That's progress.
>
>Finally...a sane voice in the wilderness! A-frigging-men, brother!
Well, I'm not exactly I qualify as a sane voice in the wilderness.
Remember when Windows 3.0 was a whole pile of 5" floppy disks and
was universally agreed to be the most bloated and buggy piece of
sofware ever released? (I won't even mention Windows 1.0)
Now if you took JUST the bugs from Windows XP, not the code, just
the bugs, you couldn't get them to fit on that pile of floppies.
And that isn't even considering the bloat in it.
EVERY software product release has to be X times bigger than the
previous release, and thus have X times more bugs in it. Nothing
anyone has done in the last fourty years has changed that.
I just scored a terrific bargain on Ebay, a text giving all the
details of an Algol 60 compiler, written fourty years ago.
The amusing part is that the entire compiler and run time library
is approximately the same size as half a dozen of the new enhanced
icons on your desktop in Win XP. The compiler took 1100 words of
memory and the runtime library took 2400 words.
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