On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ntrolson wrote:
> Tom Zerucha wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> >
> > > i admire Mac for being well ahead of its time. geeze.. Mr.
> > > Gates thought it was worth while to copy the interface.
> > >
> > > but personally, i never feel it was a real programmers
> > > environment. click, click, click.. jobs done.. unix on the
> > > otherhand - the real hackers environment.. you dont understand,
> > > your harddrive dies..
> >
> > UNIX was a protected environment - crashing it unintentionally (if you
> > weren't root and didn't hit /dev/mem) was actually difficult. The (early)
> > Macs would give sad macs and bombs and other things.
> >
> > Both UNIX and Mac are consistent within their paradigms, Windows isn't.
>
> I have found Windows to be very consistent; I expect the worst and have
> yet to be disappointed. Personally, I would rather have Codewarrior
> retain a consistent interface across all its platforms than try to
> emulate some lame windows interface just to please a few vocal hacks.
> The easiest solution for them is to buy what it is they want: VC++.
>
> Cheers,
ok.. maybe metroworks should write ..... wait for it....
a Java version!!! :)) it will have a consistant look and feel
across all platforms.. including mac, windows, linux, solaris,
irix etc.. (as long as Swing is used)..
sure it may run slower.. but there are new advances in Java
(hotspot, jit compilers)..
maybe this is a solution to all our needs?
az.
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