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Around three generations of users only know one kind of computer. These are the people that hate computers. Because Excel. Because Abort, Retry, or Fail[0].
by daveloyall 10y ago
Around three generations of users only know one kind of computer. These are the people that hate computers.
Because Excel. Because Abort, Retry, or Fail[0]. Because software(license)-limited number of concurrent connections.
Because they delayed the release of features to maximize profit.
The world is in a mess today. I don't have a crystal ball, I don't know if we'd be better or worse off if we'd had machines that were only limited by hardware, not software, for all these years...
But I'll stand my ground, hold my grudge, just in case, thank you very much. Somebody's got to keep an eye on them.
EDIT: Whoops, I forgot the footnote!
0: ARF would be great if there were any practical difference between Abort and Fail... When you pick one or the other, a different errno is sent back to the application. The application then could take a different path... Just like a "Restart" in Common Lisp. However, MS's own flagship applications abstained from such behavior, again missing an opportunity to demonstrate, to teach...