On 10/14/10 10:18 PM, John Zabroski wrote:
AWT was also built in one month, so that Sun could demo applets on the
Internet. The perception within Sun from management at the time was that
they only had a short period of time to enter the Internet market ahead of
other competitors, and that some code was better than good code 6 months, or
a year or two later.
Just goes to show the biggest "bug" in computer software probably is in the
current scarcity-paradigm socio-economic system that drives how so many
programs, libraries, and standards are written, maintained, and transformed: :-)
http://knol.google.com/k/paul-d-fernhout/beyond-a-jobless-recovery#Four_long%282D%29term_heterodox_alternatives
--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of
abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.
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