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Received: from osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Osiris.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA05982 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:35 -0700 Received: (from teverett@localhost) by osiris.ac.hmc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA20222; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700 From: Tobermory Everett <teverett@osiris.ac.hmc.edu> Message-Id: <199507030618.XAA20222@osiris.ac.hmc.edu> Subject: Re: WHEN??? To: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <m0sSZmT-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> from "Clifford Thomas Matthews" at Jul 2, 95 06:54:00 pm Reply-To: Tobermory_Everett@hmc.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1566 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote: > Dan> When is ARDI going to release 1.99n? This is getting > Dan> discussing! I don't care about a few bugs. I mean, 1.99n was > Dan> sceduled to be released acouple weeks ago, not to mention > Dan> that 2.0 was supposed to be a year ago! > > Almost all of ARDI's engineering work is done by three people: Mat > Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself. All three of us are working almost > all our waking hours on Executor. If bugs are found that are > "showstoppers", a release date will slip; there's almost no way to > speed things up since we're already working at full capacity. If, on > top of that, one of us has a mother-in-law rushed to the hospital, > that will only make things worse. I try to avoid jumping on people, but when I see people jumping all over ARDI it really ticks me off. ARDI is doing an _incredible_ job. We aren't talking Microsloth or IBM or even Borland here, we are talking _three_ guys working with almost no funding and pulling off a _very_ impressive coding feat. The fact that they manage to get as much done as they do frankly astounds me. The fact that someone who can't even spell disgusting is jumping all over three guys who are pulling almost superhuman efforts to support a product they are practically giving away make me want to vomit. Please, a show of hands for ARDI. Keep up the good work and frankly, when you are happy with 1.99n, release it, but not until then. In the meantime, everyone else take two Valium and see the shrink in the morning. --Toby Everett