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Subject: Re: Ok joke all you want about the evil chess empire but

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 20:31:40 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 22:27:32, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On May 28, 2001 at 08:13:11, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2001 at 02:51:23, ERIQ wrote:
>>
>>>When some day soon we all wakeup and look around and all we see is one interface
>>>then I'm going to say "I told you so".
>>>
>>>look What happened the last time a company became a big monopoly IE. microsuck.
>>>Now we are all slaves to their software IE all good chess programs are written
>>>now for windows.
>>>
>>> And microsuck hasn't even produced a bug free product yet straight out of the
>>>box.
>>
>>Who has?
>>
>>>It always takes two versions,that we must pay for before it works well and
>>>by that time they have another dud program for sell. When will we learn.
>>
>>When will you learn?
>
>Microsoft had a very good model for producing bug-free code, but they weren't
>very good about implementing it company-wide and keeping to it.
>
>There was a meeting in the early 90's or late 80's or whatever, and out of this
>came something called the "Zero-Defect Coding Guidelines".  I read this document
>and became and advocate for it, and one reason I no longer work there is I
>became frustrated by the failure of this document to penetrate the culture
>completely.

Any relationship with the book "Writing Solid Code" by S.Maguire from Microsoft?

Miguel




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