Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!ptimtc!rdmei!icspub!astemgw!kuis!rins!will From: will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (will) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X is/isn't faulty (was Ware Ware Wizardjin) Message-ID: <241@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp> Date: 19 Apr 91 06:54:12 GMT References: <9104072151.AA28702@gaia> <128236@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Apr14.084432.11937@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Organization: Ryukoku Univ., Seta, Japan Lines: 21 In article <1991Apr14.084432.11937@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes: In article <128236@uunet.UU.NET>, rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: [...X...] >>> was painfully slow, quite a pain to program, and binaries linked to >> That's part of it. But the real problem is that it's too difficult to >> program. You can't possibly remember all those include files, >> arguments, and function calls. You'll need a whole shelf of manuals >> to write the simplest code. > >Speak for yourself. I need only one manual, and I keep it in a file >(it's only about .75 MB). And I don't refer to it all that often >anyway. > Sorry about being late on this one. Better late than never. But I agree with the Mouse, I have 3 books here for reference and thats it. I use to have the complete set of the O'Reilly Books and others, but found them to be usless. The X Window APP Prog books and 1 in Japanese which is better than them and thats it. And I prog. in X every day. Will......