RE: Bell on Standards

["Bob Wyman" <bob@xxxxxxxx>]

Henry Story wrote:
> But then Gordon Bell is working for Microsoft, so this blindness
> is not so surprising.
	This sort of libel has no place in this group. Your cheap shot at
Gordon Bell merely proves that you have no idea of the man's contribution to
this industry -- long before Microsoft decided to fund his retirement...
	If Bell fails to praise Unix it is probably because he remembers the
long years during which Unix offered little more than pipes as the solution
to all issues of componentization. Gordon Bell, on the other hand, led the
development efforts at Digital that resulted in such innovations as the
Common Runtime Library for all languages on VMS, shared libraries, common
calling standards, layered product architectures, etc. that were the real
introducers of the idea of componentization to the software world. But, one
would have to understand and care about history in order to know these
things and many others... Unfortunately, understanding history takes much
more effort then the cheap shot you delivered.

		bob wyman