Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:55:02PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO
> > is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ &
> > Java.
> >
>
> Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but
> it's not .NET. They do that because there are a lot of bugs, and their
> support contracts with large firms means that they have to address
> those bugs. There was a great article on it on some MSDN blog about a
> year or two ago. Also, I vaguely remember Joel on Software talking
> about the anatomy of a Word bug.
An interesting read:
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
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Chris.
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