On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:55:02PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO > > is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & > > Java. > > > > Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but > it's not .NET. They do that because there are a lot of bugs, and their > support contracts with large firms means that they have to address > those bugs. There was a great article on it on some MSDN blog about a > year or two ago. Also, I vaguely remember Joel on Software talking > about the anatomy of a Word bug.
An interesting read: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100320124336.gd4...@fischer
