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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 24 Dec 89 01:56:01 GMT
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woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:
>In article <18222@netnews.upenn.edu> meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) writes:
>well, let me pick up the thread here...
>
>i worked on the MACINTRASH, *NIX workstations, CP/M MICROS and all flavors
>of IBM PCs/XTs/ATs/386s.
>
>Have you ever programmed on one of those pieces of shit?  That GUI you're so
>damned proud of is a nuisance.  When i want to grab a port, or read a file,
>i don't want to have to wade through cartoons to get to it.  i don't want
>the machine to tell me i can't access a file because it wasn't created by the
>application... i want the goddamn file!  i don't normally put up with that 
>behavior from humans and i'll be damned if i'll put up with it from a machine!
>
>it took me three months to create an application on a MACII that only took
>me two weeks to create on a *NIX machine.  Productivity?  BULLSHIT!
>
>the mac does do things well, but as a programming environment it sucks.
>
>i transferred away from the job that required me to use the FRANKINTOSH
>and now i get to program on a computer... i hope to never have to work
>on one of those bastard mutant offspring of an etch-a-sketch [tm] and
>a typewriter again.
>
>remember,  if you make something idiot-proof, then idots will use it!

I agree with you wholeheartedly.  I'm glad I only support the Macs and don't
develop software for the damn things.  If you want graphics interface, get a
Sun Workstation.

Unfortunately...the Mac doesn't follow the "ok, but it's your funernal"
philosophy when it comes to programming and developing software.  At that
level, I draw the line, I will probably never use a Mac to develop software.
 
     // JCA

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