Re: what's a callback?
From: Frank Bemelman (f.bemelmanq_at_xs4all.invalid.nl)
Date: 12/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:30:07 +0100
"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> schreef in bericht
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> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:53:28 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
> <f.bemelmanq@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:
>
> >My point is that the argument that Windows is 'bloated' doesn't hold.
> >I bet that there are more PIC's running (relative) bloated code than
> >PC's. Programmers at Microsoft aren't that stupid.
>
> They're not stupid, but, working as a team, they do manage to produce
> prodigious amounts of very bad code. After a decade of effort, they
> still seem incapable of preventing buffer overflow exploits, and every
> generation of Windows runs slower and is more difficult to maintain.
It keeps pace with the hardware, it is not that it gets slower. On the
contrary. Win3.0 was typically found on 386sx running at 33MHz. Now that
was slow indeed. But if you go out to by a windows PC today, it is at
least 2GHz or better, and it does not run slow at all. Of course you
shouldn't upgrade software on old PC.
> I've seen a bit of the Windows source code, and it's a mess. Windows
> is simply bad programming.
As you once told, you don't write in C or C++, but only in 68K assembler
and Power Basic, IIRC. How can you be the judge of that? I've written
a dozen or so of windows applications, and my first attempts were indeed
a mess because there is a lot you need to know. But the more I have learnt
about it, the more I realize that there is no simple approach to make
all these little wonders happen. Embedded computing is kindergarten stuff,
compared to what's under the hood of windows. Okay, it crashes sometimes,
big deal.
There's a lot to complain about Windows, but I am reasonably happy with
it. The buffer overflow issue is blown out of proportion, it's not really
an issue. Heh, I don't even run antivirus software.
Most trouble I see is caused by non-microsoft application software.
Like Acrobat reader, still use 5.0, tried 6.0 and ditched it after
5 minutes.
-- Thanks, Frank. (remove 'q' and 'invalid' when replying by email)
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