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Joel expresses my frustration for me...

Joel has once again said it best - if you have about 15 minutes (it's a lengthy article by Joel On Software standards) - go read his article on “How Microsoft Lost the API War”. One of the best articles he's written in quite a while, in my opinion.
Posted: Jun 16 2004, 11:07 AM by jamauss | with 4 comment(s)
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Darrell said:

> One of the best articles he's written in quite a while <

Not hard, since he's written nothing but filler (see my office! Unicode like you can't find it elsewhere on the web!) for the past year or so. :)
# June 16, 2004 2:25 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, Darrell, that's true. He's written some pretty high quality articles in the past though - and without trying to sound like a Joel Fanboy here - even most of his filler articles are better than what you find elsewhere.
# June 16, 2004 2:32 PM

SBC said:

the question to ask is if API is a necessity in the age of plaforms (.NET/Java, etc). where the system landscape has width AND depth. Joel is OK in small doses.. :-)
# June 16, 2004 2:39 PM

Jason Mauss said:

SBC - Isn't the same trend of breaking backwards compatibility occuring in the platforms though?
# June 16, 2004 2:57 PM