[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:21:48 +0930
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:08:08 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Oh, I know. I've been there at the design and alpha test level. When
> we'd get what we thought was a stable version, I'd turn my 10yo son
> loose on it and tell him his job was to "break" the program. If he
> managed to find a flaw, it would be fixed.
Ah, yes, the "pre-teen" test! Probably the most stringent one ever
devised <GGGGG>
> Since DOS programs *will* run in Windoze, turning out a functional DOS
> program makes sense. Changing it to run in 'doze would *not* be that
> difficult, as long as you stuck to using what was designed into the
> progam and avoided depending upon all the built-in snit MS includes in
> its OSes.
But naturally *most* programmers are interested only in seeing their
programs run in Windoze and will use all the built-in "snit" that is
available.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
"Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.
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