Re: MicroSquish, Installment 245637: The Grousing Continues

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, yes re Tim Behr !
On Swiss Army knives I do note that the real one actually does its many
tasks fairly well--unlike badly designed alternatives, which is where
Microsoft seems to come in ("badly designed", at least). And please
deliver me from any semi-smart machine or program--i.e. one smart enough to
think it knows what I want to do, but not smart enough to get it right !

At 01:19 PM 5/12/01 +0900, Peter Evans wrote:
> > Microshaft tries to be an *intelligent* Swiss Armee knife,
> > i.e. one that tells you what you want to do and what not.
>
> Yes, awful, isn't it? But hands up anybody on this mailing list who
> didn't already know or think that. (Or re-ponder Oscar's aphorism.)
>
> Meanwhile (and by contrast), warm thanks to Tim Baehr for providing a
> long, detailed, and surprisingly unbitter history of the rise and fall
> of Xy. I didn't know a lot of it. It deserves webbification.