[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:55:11 AM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:

> I think that the point is that C++ was chosen because it was 
> popular/modern -- yet the programmers still fell into the Y2K trap.

No, it was because it was written by somebody in "sales management" and they probably didn't do any design documents, code reviews, or sufficient testing.

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