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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Macintosh vs. X windows
Message-ID: <115@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 23:36:15 GMT
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Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <9101301622.AA16048@maui.coral.com> tomt@maui.coral.COM (Tom Tulinsky) writes:
>I must recommend that any beginner to X NOT try to learn it through
>the MIT documentation but purchase the books by O'Reilly, Jones, and
>something for his toolkit.

Good recomendation.  I have one beef though, most of the bookstores here
are still only carrying the X11r3 versions!  (I still cannot find the gray
edition of volume zero in any bookstore, and the UCLA bookstore just this
month got the X11r4 version of the Xt manuals)

> Speaking of which, when are we going to
>clue John in that if he choosing X is only the beginning of his
>decisions?  Maybe we should just refer him to the "Motif vs. Open
>Look, is there a trend" thread of messages.  

Well, if I had my druthers, I would code every application I wrote to allow
the end user to select the GUI.  I suppose right now that probably means
coding in C++ and using OI?
[Actually I would also code in C++ by choice]
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