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Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes
AceMarkE writes "Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software has posted an article entitled "How Microsoft Lost the API War". He covers why the Win32 API is important to Microsoft, what they've done to keep it working, why Microsoft's switch to the .Net platform is both a good and bad idea, and why he feels the browser will be the real future of application development. Definitely worth a read no matter what your opinion of Microsoft is."
And people say the evil giant doesn't try to fix it's software. They fixed SimCity DAMN IT!
http://jayceecorder.blogspot.com
Remember, "It's not done till Lotus won't run!"
Located in Real of Windows 2000/XP the Suburb in the district judio, Joel took step to the Islamic enclosure of epoca. Although its date cannot be dated from origin, have the news of the same one as of the century, API reconstructs on the century and this influenced of the sort to mudejar, Microsoft aspect that emphasizes remarkably in the present one and conserved well in Windows XP.
Crow and Tom Servo?
From the article:
"... they could reinvent themselves as a shaved-ice company at the last minute. "
Well I have posted twice about this as I read, and now must say that I found the root of the article. It was all a damn ad!
http://jayceecorder.blogspot.com
... so don't reply telling me some tinfoil hat story on how MS will patent SOAP...
Jesus! MS patenting SOAP? I mean, how are we supposed to do our washing now?
(Sorry, coudn't resist...)
WOW! That makes 6,000,000,000 (6 billion) Linux developers. With that many developers I would say the Win32 API is already dead.
Unless some of those 6 billion developers got bored and decided to implement Win32 on Linux. Now there's an interesting idea...
What's with the backslash in GNU\Linux? You look suspicious to me, Microsoft boy.
Debuging into system librarys ? Librarys should be blackboxes, and you should be able to trust them.
1. Tell everyone the Win API is dead.
2. Insert advert at bottom of article.
3. ????
4. Loss!
'X Windows'? Is that anything like the X Window System?
Librarys should be blackboxes, and you should be able to trust them.
*wipes away a tear*
Thanks... I needed that. If I had modpoints, you'd have +1 Funny right now.
- fader
Ok, let me get this straight:
.NET and a whole bunch of other replacement APIs
.Net is a GREAT step forward (if not for everybody else, at least for people who previously lived lives subsisting off prior Microsoft C/C++/COM/ActiveX/etc. sludge).
Technical community and pundits: OMIGOD the windows API is so crappy and kludgy and windows crashes a bazillon times a day and you shot my dog
Microsoft: no, it's actually YOUR badly written applications
TCP: OMIGOD it's still your fault
MS: That's ok we fixed it for you anwyay.
TCP: OMIGOD why did you waste all that energy on such and old and rotten API! You suck! HUZZAH! I'm throwing salt in your eyes
MS: Yeah, I know, we finally decided it was time to part with all that baggage and hired smart guys that you seemed to like and invented
TCP: OMIGOD why did you do this to me!? I thought you loved me!? I'm going to run off with my new lover "teh intarweb" where we will make complicated scientific visualization applications out of javascript and feed starving mouths with semantic web markup alone, and live in a utopian libertarian dream!
I don't buy it. I think Joel has entered the crank-o-sphere. While XUL shows some tentative promise as an application development platform, current web standards are pretty damn CRAPPY at creating rich interactive GUIs or applications of any complexity. That is why we see so much Flash cropping up.
I for one think
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
I'd just like to add that personally I enjoy watching 100% CPU usage. Makes me feel I'm really getting value for my money from that tortured CPU :-P
If it was 10% all the time, I'd feel silly for having spent far too much on the CPU...