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Re: What do we want in Carbon? (was Modern C++)

On 11/7/03 2:41 PM, Eric Schlegel didst favor us with:

>> I don't think it's in anyone's best interest for Apple's overworked engineers
>> to have to modify code in the OS to accommodate incorrectly written code in
>> *any* third party application.
>>
> Unfortunately, you've forgotten one important class of people: our customers.
> It's in our customers' interest that their applications continue to work when
> they upgrade to a new OS release. Sometimes, that requires workarounds for
> apps that haven't obeyed the rules. We try to keep that to a minimum, but
> we're willing to do it if we have to.
>
> -eric

Being the idealist that I am :-), it seems to me that it should be important
to developers that their applications continue to work with new releases of
the OS and they should code responsibly to that end. Over the years I've had
very few problems with new releases of the OS using this approach. I
certainly don't expect Apple to modify the OS to work around my coding
errors.

Larry
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