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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "I hate programming on Macs"
Message-ID: <5231@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 24 Dec 89 05:54:01 GMT
References: <969@crash.cts.com> <10734@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <10734@encore.Encore.COM> jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>                                                         Many of the people
>who've expressed dislike or disdain for graphical interfaces have argued
>that they make programmers' lives more difficult, as if that were some sort
>of crime.  The poor babies!  How dare we demand that they take time away
>from their pursuit of the Ultimate Hack to make things easier for the mere
>mortal *users* who sign their paychecks?  There's nothing wrong with hacking,
>but don't start crying when people expect you to *earn* your pay when you'd
>rather go play.

I don't think so. I believe that a GUI where 90% of the GUI interface is
in ROM and asking for a named resource that doesn't exist crashes the
system to the extent of requiring a cold boot is a clear example of a
GUI that gets in the way of programmers doing their jobs. When a
programming error in a call to the GUI that's easy to make uses wedging
the machine as an error message there's something wrong with the GUI.


 Sean Malloy                                   | "The Crystal Wind is the
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | Storm, and the Storm is Data,
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | and the Data is Life."
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | -- _Emerald Eyes_, D.K. Moran