On 10 nov 2006, at 16.40, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
The rot set in far far earlier, with 'awt' and 'swing'. Neither name
cries out "widget set" to me.
To be fair, both are acronyms: "Advanced Widget Toolkit" and
"Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay".
hth,
/s
Actually AWT stands for "Abstract Window Toolkit". Could this be
because it sucks so much and does so little that you have to subclass
it whether you want it or not?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/awt/index.html
/Claes
