One word.... HA !
james
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From my post to the NANAE newsgroup...
My favorite quote is...
BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the Internet
couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only thing that worked
was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP - or you could put up screens -
that's HTML - but software couldn't talk to software.
Its good to know my Putty application can't talk to my OpenSSH server, or
that my EXIM mail server can't actually talk to other mail servers.
You guys missed it, Gates is utterly right. There is no such thing as perfect code. Where he errs is that his code is utter and unremarkable crap based on poorly conceived designs based on a percieved difficulty of use problem. The simple solution was to design it for the average person and then tell anyone who couldn't figure it out to get stuffed.
Sadly that didn't happen here, or when dcom came out, or when activex sucked, or when dcom came out again, or every time they release Outlook (Express).
You guys missed it, Gates is utterly right. There is no such thing as perfect code.
Hmmm, I think that is a given. Even my ponytail knows that !
Gates just has a talent with spin.
Where he errs is that his code is utter and unremarkable crap based on poorly conceived designs based on a percieved difficulty of use problem. The simple solution was to design it for the average person and then tell anyone who couldn't figure it out to get stuffed.
Sadly that didn't happen here, or when dcom came out, or when activex sucked, or when dcom came out again, or every time they release Outlook (Express).
Yep, change the prompt, shoehorn 32 bits onto 8 bits and "we are done
here".
If you take all of this together we have Microsoft is going to supply us with
code that does not work that will allows programmers who know what they are
doing to talk to any windows system in the world.
Cool.
Brian Bruns wrote:
My favorite quote is...
BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the
Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only
thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP -
or you could put up screens - that's HTML - but software
couldn't talk to software.
what *is* TCP/IP if it isn't software talking to software?
Dave Howe wrote:
Brian Bruns wrote:
> My favorite quote is...
>
> BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the
> Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only
> thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP -
> or you could put up screens - that's HTML - but software
> couldn't talk to software.
what *is* TCP/IP if it isn't software talking to software?
The rules software talking to softare is supposed to follow?