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From: alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tabs in TextEdit
Message-ID: <18486@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 88 00:17:58 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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> ...Since Apple is crawling with programmers, I hope they do this, unless
> there's something I've overlooked...

[Fairly new Apple employee steps onto enormously tall soapbox...]

Apple is most emphatically NOT crawling with programmers with nothing to
do.  In fact, it is quite a difficult task (as anyone who's tried will
tell you) to find EXCELLENT Macintosh programmers, or excellent programmers
of any sort, for that matter...

Please do not assume I'm whining just to get people to cut Apple some
possibly undeserved slack.  You KNOW we're growing at an ASTONISHING rate
and that some growing pains are simply unavoidable.  But I DO believe
that we really ARE addressing things in a priority basis.  Some of the
priorities might not be the same as yours, and we CERTAINLY MAY have
missed a lot of good ideas in the shuffle, but we are basically on your
side.

(Did I CAPITALIZE enough WORDS in the ABOVE to SUIT YOU?!? :-)

[Apple person steps sheepishly down from enormously tall soapbox...]

Alan Mimms (alan@apple.com)           My opinions are generally
Communications Products Development   pretty worthless, but
Apple Computer, Inc.                  they *are* my own...
...it's so simple that only a child can do it!  -- Tom Lehrer, "New Math"