Re: what's a callback?

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:29:15 -0800

"John Larkin" <john@spamless.usa> wrote in message
news:iveos0pou4573r7brp8qt7vmcsnsahgb2m@4ax.com...
> 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.
>
> I've seen a bit of the Windows source code, and it's a mess. Windows
> is simply bad programming.

Some of the people at Microsoft write very ggod books about writing
software, or managing large software projects.

I guess no one has any time to read or be trained.

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