XPost: alt.os.development   
   From: maxim@storagecraft.com   
      
   > > Yes, and because these OSes are notably bad, I conclude that probably it   
   > > was unwise to write them in C...   
   > >   
   > I like that! Excellent!!!! :D   
      
   Write a better OS then Linux, then we will talk :-) in fact, nobody in the   
   whole world have written an OS of Linux or Windows quality using Ada or Eiffel.   
      
   What I love in Linus's public statements (yes, a Microsoft MVP speaking good   
   things on Linus :-) ) - is _practical_ bias of them. One of the latest is -   
   "specs are evil, the one who treats the spec religiously and dogmatically   
   should remove himself from the kernel work ASAP". Very, very practical. I can   
   understand him very much. Microsoft follows the similar practice (as described   
   in some books).   
      
   Theoreticians are well-known in declaring everything in the world as stupid,   
   the inner cause of this is just plain pride of "myself is a great intellectual,   
   and most other people are idiots".   
      
   Such a pride is usually easily hit in a situation where something practical is   
   required from a theoretician. 3-times-overdesign is nearly a guarantee, so is   
   the bad performance.   
      
   The practician's approach is - "if this is done that way, that this is _for a   
   reason_, possibly I do not know this reason, but this works and thus is fine,   
   the mere fact of the thing being working proves that the authors are not   
   idiots. I could possibly spend some time to discover the exact reason and   
   possible other ways, but sorry, I have the direct tasks to solve, and thus will   
   just plain use the feature".   
      
   --   
   Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP   
   StorageCraft Corporation   
   maxim@storagecraft.com   
   http://www.storagecraft.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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