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TTLOTD -- Eternal Damnation or Windows 95 -- You choose...

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed,  1 May 96 17:15:19 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: TTLOTD -- Eternal Damnation or Windows 95 -- You choose...

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Forwarded-by:  Ernest Hua <hua@XENON.chromatic.com>

This is from the founder of Autodesk.  I guess he's become frustrated
enough with Windows 95 programming to make the following observation:

Subject: Top 10
Author:  John Walker <kelvin@fourmilab.ch> at smtpcc

		        Well, I'll Be Damned
		        ====================

		by John Walker --  kelvin@fourmilab.ch

           The top ten reasons Eternal Damnation is better
                  than Windows Software Development

Eternal Damnation             		Windows Development
===================         		===================

				- 10 -

It never ends.				You think you're almost done,
 					but you never really finish.

 		    		- 9 -

You burn forever, but are not		Each update introduces new
consumed.				and improved tortures, which
					slowly consume you.

				- 8 -

Your fate is in the hands of 		Your fate is in the hands of
Satan, Prince of Darkness.		Gates, Prince of Incompatibility.

				- 7 -

Satan gives you something you		Gates makes you buy Windows 95.
want in return for being damned.

				- 6 -

It is avoidable; an attractive,		Resistance is futile.  All the
widely-marketed alternative is		alternatives are damned or doomed.
available.

				- 5 -

It is free.				You pay, and pay, and pay just
					to stay in the game.

				- 4 -

Satan was once an angel.		Gates started by writing a BASIC
					interpreter.

				- 3 -

Hell has no Windows.			Microsoft does.

				- 2 -

You only pass the Gates of Hell	        The Gates of Microsoft keeps
one time.				popping up everywhere you look.

			    AND NUMBER ONE:

Satan genuinely believes in the 	Gates just does it for the money.
triumph of Evil.
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