GW-Basic

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:

> From: "Gregory Whitten" <gregw at whitten.net>

> On the Joel Spolsky subject he was a basically ignorant junior employee
> who left Microsoft after a short number of years.

OUCH! Axe-grinding in public! (More accurately, axe-swinging
post-sharpening.) What happened to mellowing with the years and
all that rot? Sounds like someone needs a (non-Microsoft) life!

> [...]  The applications group spent
> 30 man-years integrating custom interfaces for each application with the
> Office 95 applications.  In Office 98 they tossed it all and went back
> to my original suggestion which only took 1.5 man-years to develop and
> provided better commonality and learning between the applications.

  -and-

> I did a few other "minor" things (when I was not having lunch with Bill)
> like setting the object technology strategy for the entire company
> including working on the design of OS/2 and an object oriented version

Modest too.