lisadraw

" If I had to make the statement, I would say that today's code is a lot more like the Lisa's than the Mac's." -- We are living in a very different world. No one but embedded systems people (and very few of them..) code the way it was done on the original Mac. Today, you have a product that often has a sub-year lifetime. You put things out that are just good enough to sell, and move on to the next generation. No one would buy a PC with the features that could be built with a team the size of the original Mac team today, using their methodology. The only way to get a competitive product is to use a lot of other people's code, because no one is willing to pay for foundation development, only product differentiation. I'm not saying this is a GOOD thing (this is one of the reasons I'm at the Museum and not a start-up) it is just the way products are built today.