On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Surely you guys mistaken. How could we find out the truth---is it
the
same ol' shit or a new set of code?
Of course large parts of it are recycled - code re-use is good
practice
yes?
One of the big benefits that was supposed to come from this brave
new world of Vista and .Net was managed code, which is supposed to
eliminate the structural weaknesses that resulted in a large share of
the security problems which Microsoft is infamous for. Using managed
code was supposed to result in a secure platform.
But now we learn that Microsoft isn't following their own advice.
The same swiss-cheese code that has resulted in their security
performance problems in the past is still there. The office apps are
not managed code; the server apps are not managed code, and the OS is
not managed code.
Code re-use is great when the code itself is good. It is utterly
stupid when the code is not good.
-- Ed Leafe
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