APL\360

[Norman Jaffe]

I was responsible for the Macintosh version and hence was both permitted to address the changes and criticized for impacting the Windows builds - the changes were in shared code. 
I would probably face legal issues if I named names. 
[You can always look me up in LinkedIn and, with minor detective skills, guess which product...] 

From: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 6:57:28 PM 
Subject: Re: APL\360 

It was thus said that the Great Norman Jaffe via cctalk once stated: 
> 
> It happened to me as well - I found hundreds of warnings in the code and, 
> after getting permission to address them, I was fired 

Wait ... you got *permission* and were still *fired*? Have I just been 
fortunate in where I've worked my entire career? [1] 

> because 'we would 
> have to recompile the Windows version due to the changes you made'; the 
> source code was reverted to the state before I made the changes. 

Wouldn't you have to recompile the Windows version for updates? Or was 
the company too cheap (or was unable to) run regression tests? 

> I refuse 
> to have their product on any system that I have involvement with... 

Can you name names? Or do you need to protect yourself? 

-spc 

[1] Possibly yes.