5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
7:04 p.m.
Lawrence LeMay wrote:
Magnificent, isn't it? It _looks_ like valuable debugging
information to a non-programmer. In its way it's as beautiful as
Jerry Falwell promising that anybody who sends him money will go to
Heaven.
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Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com> wrote:
I thought they invented the General Protection Fault, or whatever
it was called. And the blue screen of death. and probably many
other ways of saying "we dont know how to program, and we know it,
so instead of debugging our programs we spend time finding ways
to report cryptic error messages that normal users cant be expected to
understand".
BTW, the blue screen of death is a masterstroke of obfuscation. So far, I have the places various things
originated (i.e. IBM did _not_
invent the PC, Apple did _not_ invent the GUI, etc.)
You missed one of the most important ones:
Microsoft did _not_ invent ANYTHING.