Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 17:23:23 GMT References: <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Nov1.002513.8984@ico.isc.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <1990Nov1.002513.8984@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes: > Not even that complicated: If the seller can't think of a use (legitimate > or otherwise) for the resources, there will be no reason for the new > product. It's no different than the way a company puts the same old > laundry soap (cereal, whatever) in a wider, taller, shallower box and > shouts "New! Improved!" It's the American way, son. Yeh, but the soap inside still has the same user interface. Here's another challenge: figure out how to make that damn wrapper into a real wrapper, so it uses all those nice tools instead of replacing the soap with an integrated-showerhead-soap-dispenser-system. It's not that hard, really. AT&T did it on the 3b1 in 1983 or 1984, without all the bells and whistles. If you can write window applications using shell scripts, they will come. Just look at how much stuff is being done with Hypercard. It's basically the same thing, just with a crummy script language. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com