[670] in Humor
HUMOR: Explains a lot, doesn't it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Jan 16 14:15:20 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 14:10:29 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:54:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Subject: "We don't bug fix, either..."
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: dev-null@gauss.asd.sgi.com
Forwarded-by: rck@sgi.com (Robert Keller)
>From a review of Microsoft Excel 5.0 on page 54 of the
January 1995 issue of MacWorld:
Excel 5, like Microsoft Word, is the product of a design philosophy
explained over the years by Microsoft chief software architect Charles
Simonyi:
"We find out what features people want and we program them. We don't
optimize or fine-tune unless absolutely necessary, since that takes too
long and the chip makers will take care of our performance problems
eventually. CPUs get faster and memory gets cheaper, and we want to get
products out the door now."
