RE: Human minds on Windows(?)

From: Billy Brown (ewbrownv@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 08:41:25 MDT


Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Large programs are not that bad -- but large monolithic programs
> are. You'll have trouble porting code monoliths to fine-grain maspar
> systems.

True, but who writes monolithic code these days? Everything Microsoft
produces is a bundle of DLLs and COM objects, and I rarely see individual
files bigger than a few MB. Everyone else I'm familiar with has either
adopted the same approach, or doesn't write anything big in the first place.

Billy Brown, MCSE+I
ewbrownv@mindspring.com



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