Caught in .NET. "However, in the absence of some well-founded objections, the terrible murmur that I keep hearing, the one with apocalyptic consequences for the thinking programmers of the world, will come to be accepted as Gospel. You know, the one that says that, in .NET, Microsoft has made a pretty good implementation of a rather elegant design..." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]

In the first paragraph, it says that Bjarne Stroustrup et al yelled about the 14 new keywords in Managed C++. All the keywords begin with __, indicating an implementation-specific, non-standard extension. Would they have preferred #pragma's or something?

Reminds me of delegates in Visual J++: Microsoft, Sun, Microsoft's response to Sun. Microsoft's response is pretty hilarious because they correct Sun so much and get some zingers in, too: "We find it ironic that Sun appreciates the importance of these problems enough to create a product focused on these problems, but does not recognize the limitations of its own event model." ... "Using Sun's twisted logic, it is easy to conclude that any innovation that requires VM changes is non-portable. "... Truly hilarious.

1:21:28 AM    comment []  

Of questionable authenticity (allegedly from Corel), but point #3 is still scary:

3) Core Values. These are very important and I'm going to be making sure that they are ingrained in everyone's minds 24 hours a day. It is the only way that we will be able to have the kind of success we all want to have. Failure to adopt these values in full will be deemed as a lack of corporate fit and is grounds for dismissal. Part of making this a great place to work is making sure only great people work here.

12:50:32 AM    comment []