on 4/12/01 12:06 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 5. An amazing number of application developers seem to have forgotten (...)
>> 6. A depressingly large number of allegedly competent Macintosh application
>> developers are not familiar with the current MacOS APIs, technotes,
>> guidelines, and recommendations. (This is no surprise considering the dismal
>> quality of most "computer science" curricula, and the complete absence of
>> any proper engineering in such curricula).
Eric, Thanks for stating the obvious, and saying what needed to be said. I
couldn't agree more.
> The MBU has already posted what they did and I can
> see why. They had some good reasons for it, and I accept them.
Agreed.
> It would be
> nice if they could be resolved in a future SR or with the Carbon version,
> but it is not critical
Again, as the critical time this will become an issue is still at least 10
years away (think 30-year mortgages) - nevertheless, it might be a good
suggestion in the future to see this properly adjusted and supported - and
most of all equally supported by all MS Office applications (I recall that
under Office 98, each app handled Y2K and date issues differently -- ack!)
> (I'll just require the unlucky stiffs stuck with the
> NT machines to verify the date on the machine manually before they can do
> anything else - a shortcut in the startup should do the trick).
Well, that's the price they pay for using NT machines (grin).
Harry
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