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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