Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> writes:
> I'm not sure if you have done any development work, but there is a big
> difference between implementation and design.
Let's say I don't know diddly about design or implementation. What
are the differences?
How can we tell if something is part of a program's design while
another thing is part of its implementation?
> I think there is some confusion here. I am not in any way saying that
> Outlook is safe.
No, we must be talking past each other. I'm not saying that you
think Outlook is safe.
> However, that doesn't mean that the design of Outlook is poor
> (although I would argue some design choices are a bit weak).
If the programmers at Microsoft made some poor implementation choices
(as opposed to the system having a design flaw), shouldn't that be
something that they can fix more easily?
> We had this same debate on a brlug.net list.
I noticed ;-) I'm not really interested in debate (where debate
implies pounding the other person to a bloody pulp with stubborn
repetition).
Mark.
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