At 14:13 -0500 12/9/20, Peter Gold wrote: >...You can see my long memory as evidenced by recalling the automatic >replacement of InterLeaf.
Oh wow, the Echoes of Times Past! :-) Interleaf: the app that required one full-time 'administrator' per five user seats. >This reminds me of something a little longer back: (BTW, this is not just >an old guy showing off he's still cooking upstairs, by dredging up random >old stuff, But maybe this is... >...it's pertinent here!) I worked at a database software company that >rocketed to fame and riches around the same time Frame Technology and Adobe >did. However, it's long-gone. A couple of years after I got laid off with a >few thousand others, when the company had gone into several tailspins because >management had overruled QA and released supremely buggy products which lost >customers' faith, Ouch. Bad bad policy. [Ex-Sw QA inspector here] > I met someone who told me he'd been the last project manager on the product. > He'd been called in "to fix the problems in quality, for good, this time, and > get the company back on track." He told me that the first place he started > was with meeting the developers and digging into the most-commonly known bugs > and irritants. First on the list was the odd differences with how the > built-in text editor that was used to enter command-line commands, enter data > into database fields, design the database files, and write and edit code, > depending on how the user invoked it. "So, I asked, 'who's responsible for > this editor,' and 35 hands went up." The problem was that it was so easy to > write an editor, that there was no single spec for it. Every developer who > needed one in his or her modules just wrote one on the spot, and, of course, > didn't document it, "because everybody know how to do it, so why bother? So, > that's when I left." ROFL. Who here hasn't hacked their own editor? Heck, I even hacked my own shell. (But I did document and share it.) >It looks like when the TOC source material is processed differently into >PDF by Print > PDF vs. Save As > PDF. Same kind of problem. > >Glad you've identified and solved the issue so you can move ahead, and also >good that you've shared it with the community. And thank you, Peter, for sharing your reminiscences. It's made me feel ever so slightly more 'valid', to use the currently favored woke term. -- Steve [ancient SWEng with more experience than is now comfortable] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
