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| DATE | 2005-04-05 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] mubling under my breadth
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Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> Its a supid healthcare program called CarePoint which is
> overly dependent on w2k shit to even print reliably
>
> It constantly crashes on stupid SQL statements. It is a
> complete piece of sh-at-!!
Ah, one of those. They get under my skin as well. In the accounting
software world, it's quite common to write everything in BASIC (though
not VB but that'd hardly be any worse), and use lots of 3rd party crap
like Crystal Reports, such that you need a small nuclear power plant of
a PC just to generate an invoice. For this, they charge you an obscene
amount of money.
That's just the sad part. The part I find annoying is that this
"professional" work is exactly the "promise of Microsoft", in that
"anyone, even managers can to what used to require a programmer." So
even when their stuff is working more or less the way it's supposed to,
it's still abominable.
- Ron
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