[Gllug] Controversial Joel Spolsky article

[Christopher Hunter]

On Monday 15 Dec 2003 8:19 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
>
> He's a Windows fanboy, so you have to excuse him. Most of the stuff he
> writes is insightful.

Sorry Rich, but most of the article is drivel!  "Auntie Madge expects output 
from her programs" (to paraphrase) - what she mostly expects to see (in the 
Windoze world) is useless error messages and blue screens!

He's slightly right in so much as we often write code that's only 
comprehensible to others like us - that's usually no bad thing, as I wouldn't 
want his "Auntie Madge" let loose with a partitioning tool or even trying to 
do backups!

You're right - he's M$-centric.  You may well find that his column is financed 
by the folks from Redmond.  It's often difficult to find unbiased journalism 
in the world of computing......

Chris

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