I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to understand (ans really appreciate !) ;-) + ;-) René
Le 10 avr. 2010 à 11:12, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > On 10/04/2010 11:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: >> >> I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw this: >> >> Its a common reaction among C neophytes, its because you had failed to >> declare your variables. If it happens again, splash some cold water on your >> face, sit down, declare your variables, and you'll feel a whole lot better! >> > "sit down and eat your vegetables" . . . Mmm . . . takes me back to a > summer visit with my Granny in Dundee . . . who . . . believed that it > was good to boil vegetables until they had no taste and no nutritional > value left: end result - have just eaten a raw carrot and a raw turnip > (washed down with black coffee) for my breakfast: try it; sets one up > for the day! Certainly, having risen from my lumpy bed in a lumpy > mood, a little bit of crudité makes me "feel a whole lot better". > > And, for all I know. RunRev may look a "bit raw" to the self-appointed > gods of computer programming. I, for one, don't have any great > pretensions to divinity in that area (nor any other, come to think of > it, ha, ha). > > Personally I would rather risk "breaking a tooth" on the crunchy > exterior of RunRev that do a "back to the future" with Objective-C, > which reminds me of PASCAL 5 in a funny sort of way . . . in fact in > such a funny sort of way that I would rather leave it, along with > the memory of Granny's "biled greens" in the reasonably > long-forgotten past. Although, to be fair, Granny also kept me > well-supplied with mixed-boilings and the Beano. > > Programming-qua-programming I can see no obvious advantages > in using Objective-C over RunRev; if, however, it can do the things > on Linux that RunRev can do on Mac and Windows but cannot on > Linux I may well have to control my gag reflex (wow, traumatised > by PASCAL) and chomp on down. > > I really do feel (as I'm sure quite a few other folk must too) that I > have invested a serious amount of time and effort getting up to > some sort of speed with RunRev; and, as you, Peter, pointed out; > age gets in the way; and I really don't have the time, the money, > or the Mojo (???) to do 'that' all over again with Objective-C. > > Frankly, I would much prefer (but Ah jalouse naebody's clappin > their gully lugs til ma scrievins) if RunRev for Linux could be > 'sorted out' - and by that I mean brought exactly up to par > with the Win and Mac versions (I wonder how many times I > am going to scrieve that before . . . ). > > Now: if somebody could help me with some sort of a Wildcard > method for Unicode I would be a considerably happier > person! > > sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution