Andrew said:
To you, maybe. To put it another way, I take a very engineering view,
rather than a scientific one to technology.
Well, that sounds like the sort of attitude that Mac people I know
take. OS X, for example, has the advantage over Windows that it's
actually been properly engineered. Until Vista, even Microsoft didn't
have any idea about the dependencies between pieces of Windows code
and by their own admission were utterly appalled when they tried to
map those dependencies(*). Software engineering is something that
seems foreign to Microsoft - it appears that they solve problems by
throwing large numbers of developers at a problem and slipping
release dates until it appears to more or less work. Apple, on the
other hand, seem to go out of their way to constantly improve their
software designs (and I'm clearly not just talking about externally
visible things like user interfaces).
Rich
(*) No, I don't have a citation. It was in an interview with some
senior Vista project managers that I read quite a long time ago. I
didn't keep the URL as I never expected to be referring to it. It may
have been one of Rob Short's video presentations about the Vista
kernel (Short is the head of the kernel team).
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