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On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 16:20:28 PDT, Martin Buchholz said:
> >     If you install support for Windows, please don't call it "win32".
> >     Please call it "Windows", not "win".  "Win" is a term of praise, and
> >     the GNU policy is not to praise Microsoft Windows.
> > As I am not a native English speaker, it took me a few minutes before
> > I realized what the hell he was talking about.
> The real truth is that you are not a native speaker of MIT hackish.
I however note that Bill Gates is *not* listed under "deserves to lose".
Also, Windows 95 is *not* listed under "bag" or "crock" or "creeping horror".
The obvious conclusion is that Jargon V.5 will need to be updated to
properly document the pestilence that has spread across the land. ;)

Good software arises from a clean basic design and careful thought
as it grows.  Bad software arises from tossing routines in a bag,
shaking them, and hoping a program loader and BIOS pop out.  Worse
software arises from taking what does pop out, and trying to make
it into a full-fledged operating system by dint of energetic use
of a bicycle pump for inflation purposes....

Those who hold much hope for the future should keep in mind that
the JCL scanner (ad-crockery and all) that first originated in
OS/360 in 1964 is still alive and well....

// JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DD DSN=SYS1.LINKLIB,DISP=(,PASS)
//STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DD DSN=*.STEP1,DD1,DISP=(OLD,DELETE,UNCATLG)
//

/Valdis (who found out the hard way that the above works;)

P.S. as long as I'm rambling, IEFBR14 was basically the S/360
equivalent of the C idiom 'int main {return 0;}'  It became the
buggiest program on record, if measured by bugs per line of code.

