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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <5137@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 19 Dec 89 16:06:31 GMT
References: <5842@eos.UUCP> <10684@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <10684@encore.Encore.COM> jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>by woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood):
>> Have you ever programmed on one of those pieces of shit?  That GUI you're so
>> damned proud of is a nuisance.

>If you're not willing to work a little harder to make the users' lives a
>little easier (a net gain in the long run), you're a pretty fucking lousy
>engineer (please note that this is a conditional statement).  I'm tired
>of the "technological" priesthood" who want technology for themselves and
>don't give a shit about bringing it to the rest of the world.

As was pointed out in a posting to another newsgroup, if the Mac GUI
is supposed to be so wonderful an interface, why was it implemented in
such a brain-dead manner? The example cited was that applications have
to handle their own expose events. This should be internal to the GUI;
the programmer shouldn't have to do it himself. Essentially, you have
to write part of the GUI all over again for _every_ program you write.
It's sort of like OS|2, which I believe IBM changed from OS/2 because
the name was too descriptive -- it's half an operating system.


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