The Gates of Hell... yet another lame attempt at humor...

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Thu, 2 May 96 23:59:50 PDT


Well, I'll Be Damned
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by John Walker -- kelvin@fourmilab.ch (Founder of Autodesk)

The top ten reasons Eternal Damnation is better
than Windows Software Development

Eternal Damnation Windows Development
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- 10 -

It never ends. You think you're almost done,
but you never really finish.

- 9 -

You burn forever, but are not Each update introduces new
consumed. and improved tortures, which
slowly consume you.

- 8 -

Your fate is in the hands of Your fate is in the hands of
Satan, Prince of Darkness. Gates, Prince of Incompatibility.

- 7 -

Satan gives you something you Gates makes you buy Windows 95.
want in return for being damned.

- 6 -

It is avoidable; an attractive, Resistance is futile. All the
widely-marketed alternative is alternatives are damned or
available. doomed.

- 5 -

It is free. You pay, and pay, and pay just
to stay in the game.

- 4 -

Satan was once an angel. Gates started by writing a BASIC
interpreter.

- 3 -

Hell has no Windows. Microsoft does.

- 2 -

You only pass the Gates of Hell The Gates of Microsoft keeps
one time. popping up everywhere you look.

AND NUMBER ONE:

Satan genuinely believes in the Gates just does it for the money.
triumph of Evil.