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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:59:21 +0200
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> I'm sure most of Microsoft's bad decisions were mandated by time to
> market.

no.  the core architecture is so flawed and the API so gross
that it had to be sheer bad design.