Re: Simony Interview

[Mark Hinds <zoro@blarg.net>]

claribba wrote:

> Interview with Charles Simony, long-time M$ programmer, developer of WYSIWYG.
>
> http://www.edge.org/digerati/simony/simonyi_p1.html
>
> Also responses to the interview.
>
> It's a long article, most of it goes right over my head, but may be of
> interest to some of you, especially the programmers.  I don't know enough
> about programming or its history to comment on the accuracy of what he says.
> Possibly gives insight into M$ methods, and goals.
>
> There may be other, non-M$, stories of interest to some at the site.
>
> Claire Macdonald

People have been talking about this kind of thing for years, and still C is the
mainlanguage of today. Mostly I found the article irritating. If Mr Simony met
Bill in
1980 and Bill was such a wiz for GUI's how come it took MS so long to get any
where with real GUI's?

Personally I think this guy sounds like a BS master, there was really nothing of

substance in the article. Sometimes when things 'go over your head' it doesn't
mean that you don't understand.

Mark Hinds