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Scripting.com: It's even worse than it appeared

(running on windows, one might add)

Running a site on Windows is embarrassing enough, worse when your pants fall down like this.

Right. Who on earth would seriously consider using an OS on which errors can occur? That's just ridiculous now that errors are a thing of the past on Unix!

Fair point -- but you'd think Winer would have enough experience to allow his apps to fail gracefully.

Printing out ugly error messages complete with file system paths in html is definitely a pants-dropping kind of move.

A lot of huge sites run great on Windows. Stackoverflow, for one.

How is that embarrassing?

Using Windows as a technologist is like farting in public. Still embarrassing.

And any "technologist" who can't see the value of Microsoft tools is next to worthless in my book.

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