Re: [9fans] new compilers

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 3/25/06, Burton Samograd <kruhft@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >   - compiler suite is 3,000 lines smaller
> >
> > no no no... when you change code you're supposed to add more code.
> > Aren't you paying attention to the way software development apparently
> > works? :)
>
> I wish more software was written that way.  I always try to compress
> and minimize my projects, of course it takes me forever to do
> anything, so it's not really productive (or doesn't show off your
> productivity to the managers) if software is your business (which I
> guess is why it's not mine, full time, anymore :).
>
Yeah, this is where the right way to do things and then the way to
write commercial software seem to diverge, at least according to what
matters to the people who sign paychecks.

The rumors about Vista being 60% rewritten are interesting.  I hope
Microsoft really gets it together, not that I'm a huge fan of their
stuff in the past (Though I must say Windows 2000 and even XP Pro were
surprisingly stable and better compared to Windows 98/ME :))