Though I dream to be a programmer when I grow up, there have been almost 30 years I'm making a living programming computers, since those glorious times of the Digital PDPs.
However what most amazes me is the fact that for the first time, we are using for serious and some critical jobs, an operating system like Windows, which has been designed for entertainment and personal education, advertised as an amusement machine, and maintained as much as a hamburguer. Then WHY we use it for serious work ? Because there are so many compatible products. This is the first time in history of computers that we have no choice, but use a toy. Of course there are mainframes, Alphas, Unix and the like, but I'm talking about the average business who can't afford a real system IF the same result can be achieved MORE OR LESS, with an equipment that costs 10 times less and thanks to programmer's and systems engineers' tears, sweat and blood, keeps running almost every day.
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Un abrazo - Andrés (who still finds a minute to sing)