Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1149 gnu.misc.discuss:561 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!lll-winken!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNUclear Warfare Message-ID: <4793@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Dec 89 05:04:00 GMT References: <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4ZW1ijS00WBKE1qh5C@andrew.cmu.edu> <4774@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1989Dec18.052331.4514@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <4791@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1989Dec18.235119.8828@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 47 In article <1989Dec18.235119.8828@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: > Well, Peter, if you can change your definitions at will and claim that > software that is used by non-computer nerds is actually nerd software If you were willing to sit down and think about what I'm saying instead of acting like a literal-minded idiot you'd see the point. Terminal programs are computer-geek software because they're something that other computer-nerds will look at and say "wow, you're a cool frood you" and give the guy who wrote it an ego-boost. So he'll go back and do it again and make it better. Can't you keep an argument straight for two messages in a row? Spreadsheets aren't in the same category. Computer nerds don't get excited about them. > >Is it up to Lotus-123 level, or is it merely better than other Atari ST > >program? > There is a Lotus 1-2-3 clone for the ST. I hope you were not asuming > that ST software would naturally be less functional than software for > other machines. Yep, all other things being equal. I'd expect that programs needing a lot of RAM would be better on the ST, but all other things being equal there's more people writing stuff for the IBM-PC. > I'll also point out that many Lotus 1-2-3 features aren't > usable by end-users and are actually computer nerd features... They don't do anything Nerds really want to do. But I've seen some accountants producing amazing things by abusing 1-2-3. At least I assume they're amazing: not being an accountant I can't tell. Other bean-counters seemed excited. That's another category of hot PD software: 123 macro templates. Of course a non-123-compatible spreadsheet won't be able to use it... > p.s. it turns out that you're right that rms wants to ban selling software, > and all vegetarians want to ban meat... I read about it in Time magazine! Well, I read about it in the GNU manifesto. > Gosh, and I didn't even know my own hidden agenda... No, you probably do. But apparently you don't know or care abour RMSes. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"