3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
9:41 p.m.
Kevin Handy wrote:
Yup. I think later versions were rewritten, though.
There was a noticeable slowdown moving up towards v3.1
I think it was just YABB*
*Yet Another Borland Blunder
Must make words like the personal pronoun 'I' particularly
interesting! :>
Don Y wrote:
My dig was intended at the MS folks. :> They like to write
books about how well they handle quality issues like this...
I guess they just don't READ them!
Exactly. But, moreso, it also decreases
reliability. How often
do we see the same "buffer overrun" bugs creeping into code?
Wasn't OO design, C++, "design by contract" supposed to BURY
all of those little problem issues in a way that would make
them go away FOREVER?? I.e. shouldn't classes take care of
the details of pushing/appending bytes to a buffer so the
developer doesn't have to *count* them??
Except that few are using C++, and many of those that do
(i.e. kde) have decided that the STL classes are too bloated
because of the boundry checks, and write their own, saving
you an amazing 0.00001% on runtime with only 10% more
memory. My favorite
text editor (including emacs) is Brief (for DOS).
I take out version 1.1 and run it on a 400MHz machine and it
*flies*. I can't even imagine what it would do on a 2GHz box!
Yet, it does everything I want, runs as a text console (though
uses "line graphics" for the frames of it's "windows"), etc.
It was probably written entirely in machine language, and with all the DOS limitations built in (8.3 file
names,
640K, direct access to hardware, etc). Updating it to another
CPU or operating system would be a *lot* of work.
Perhaps. No idea since the sources aren't available.
Shame Borland
never rereleased it after they bought it
(or, better yet, open sourced it!)
Probably too much "licensed" extras in it, or too "ugly"
to release the source for. Most likely they just don't want
to be bothered about it. Yup. Like
constantly telling me I misspelled something instead
of letting me ASK you if I've misspelled anything (or, compromise,
*remind* me to ask you...)
Being genetically incapable of spelling anything the same way
twice in a row, I like the auto-spellcheck feature.