Re: CORBA and COM just don't mix

Joseph R. Kiniry (kiniry@cs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:15:23 -0700 (PDT)


Yobie Benjamin writes:
> I'm not sure if great software is always a necessity. Intuit's Quicken
> is fundamentally a calculator but I find it better than writing my own
> <sic> Excel macros to do my books. Software (...even one poorly written
> algorithms) that solves _real_ problems for people is far more powerful
> than programmatically elegant shit.

well, certainly from financiers, executives, managers, and m$'s point
of view, great software is not a necessity. in fact, they don't care
about the technology _at all_. all they care is that the problem is
sort-of solved, most of the time, and looks pretty.

fuck that.

who's with me?! talk about a coup! one well-placed mini-nuke...

> --
> Yobie Benjamin
> metaGenesis

joe