From: "Robert Comer" 

> PS. This is the second post in my series of attempted humour about
> Microsoft. I don't know what has come over me in the past week.

That's what I thought, no way could it have been real from what I knew. 

>A few days I was picking at monkey-boy Steve Ballmer, a completely
>unprovoked attack on the idol of Visual Basic programmers world-wide.

He must be one of those VB "Classic" programmers -- there's a lot
of bitterness out there related to that topic!

--
Bob Comer





"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45ecf253$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Unfortunately it looks like a lot of links are picking up on but missing
> the few lines at the bottom of the blog ( guilty here also) - and it isn't
> even April 1st
>
> http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com/2007/03/microsoft-insider-15-of-windows-vis
ta.html
>
> PS. This is the second post in my series of attempted humour about
> Microsoft. I don't know what has come over me in the past week. A few days
> I was picking at monkey-boy Steve Ballmer, a completely unprovoked attack
> on the idol of Visual Basic programmers world-wide.
>
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:i1rpu2h8k96hvjdlqjlm087b9gl4442l0o{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:13:18 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>CC: I wish I was. Over the next two years our team copied over 600,000
>>>lines of INTERCAL code from the Apple disk into the Windows Longhorn
>>>code-base.
>>
>>  While that's good reading, it is not credible in any sense of the
>> imagination.  Even BG could not be that stupid.   Nobody wants to add
>> crap
>> like that to a modern code base.
>>
>>   That being said, I believe MS would not hesitate to co-opt any design
>> or
>> idea not locked down by patent or NDA that it gets its hands on.
>
>

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