6 Apr
2000
6 Apr
'00
12:07 p.m.
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
You can't blame Microsoft for allowing YOU to
write buggy code. I've never
been shown a case where it's impossible to write the code so it correctly
Sure I can. Buggy libs and DLLs, IDEs that work sorta. This is true for
any language that inherent bugs that you have to first find to program
around or avoid.
You did catch the point that VB is often used simply
as a band-aid. It does
this well. If you work as a consultant, you don't work for engineers, you
work for managers. They like to point out a problem and have you fix it.
No muss, no fuss, just dispatch the problem in the quickest way possible.
That ends up costing them less most of the time. Sometimes it's not the
right approach.
Yep!
Allison