The event I've been waiting all weekend to announce: Everett is out!

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Final Beta is here:

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download:

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site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/vstudio03/

9:06:13 PM    

My good friend John Burkhardt has some good push-back on Joel's latest well-done essay: The Law of Leaky Abstractions.  "While I agree with a lot of it, I'm not sure I buy the idea that because an abstraction might have a performance penalty in some cases, its a leaky abstraction.  And there certainly are some that seem well cemented by now.  For example, how much .asm have you written in the past 5 years?   And I don't know anyone who can hand code floating point Pentium assembler better than the compiler.  We tried to be sure, but couldn't do any better.. And I hear VS C++ is about to get even better."

11:20:19 AM