Krzysztof Foltman wrote:

>OLE
# CORBA

> and MFC
# Basically a rip-off of the class set first developed by NeXT. ("Foundation
Kit")
# NOTICE THE SIMILARITY OF NAMES: geneology :
# NeXT->Netscape(old nextywrote NFC)->MS
# then monopoly pressure killed Next and Netscape's project...we all turn to
Sun&Java as
# hope ...ut of course, it's bulky & slow...ESPeCIALLY since MS dirtied the
waters!!!!!

>(and STANDARDIZATION!),

# Pax MS? If you like being a slave, I can't help you.
#

> writting an UI for X is a wasted time.

#TCL/TK rocks for rapid app dev.


>
>
> How anyone can use such stupid things like termcap ? What for ?
>
> How anyone can look at Athena widgets and not vomit ?

#Ok, if we talk OLD tech., what about DOS?!?!?!?!?!?
#Get real. You have just given up.

>
>
> (anyway, for servers and terminal-based stuff, I still prefer Linux :-) )

#OK. One this point we agree.

>
>
> > they use it exclusively, and are deathly afraid of Emacs. (poor lost
>
> Emacs is not comfortable at all (for me, at least). Of course, you can write
> very clever add-ons for it (so you can for MSDev), but what for ?

Power. Flexibility.  Sorry you can't work with Emacs.
Leads me imagine that you prefer GUIs to key-strokes.

>
>
> > "God, I can't imagine someone who prefers this tool to gcc/gdb/emacs!!!"
>
> Weak imagination ?

Oh, that's why I have a Ph.D. in Music Composition:
obviously, those HOURS of music I've written
show a weak imagination.

> Practical
> reasons are sometimes more important than ideological ones...

I heard this said recently: oh...yeah, In the transcript of a famous
conductor's
nazi sympathy trial......
I guess we should all accept that the majority prefer
COMFORT
to
TRUTH.

>
>
> ...kf

Charlie Baker