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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Mythical Man Month
Message-ID: <70@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 07:13:10 GMT
References: <6176@fluke.COM> <10330096@accuvax.nwu.edu> <874@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
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In article <874@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>According to Microsoft, 90% of the code for Excel is the same across
>Mac and DOS/Windows platforms.

Right.  And 5% of the lines of *that* 90% are one of:
#ifdef
#else
#endif

Really, are you pleased that, to achieve this end, they ported 64K segments?

I feel inspired to create an aphorism:
"At Microsoft, it doesn't matter which file you're compiling, only which
flags you #define"
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)