On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:22:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David Merrill wrote:
>
>
> > For me, the benefits outweight the pain, hugely. No contest. But that
> > isn't true for many other people who don't enjoy fudging with their
> > conf files, and enjoy computing as a hobby in its own right. In our
> > zeal to defeat the behemoth of Redmond, we all hate to admit the ways
> > that Windows is better than Linux. But we have to be honest about the
> > state of Linux, if we are to improve it.
>
> Which we are doing, slowly. I remember Linux before X-windows. :)
>
> > Remember the mindcraft fiasco?
>
> No...
For anybody else who doesn't remember it, LWN did a good writeup.
http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft1.0.phtml
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Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
Real computer scientists admire ADA for its overwhelming aesthetic
value but they find it difficult to actually program in it, as it is
much too large to implement. Most computer scientists don't notice
this because they are still arguing over what else to add to ADA.
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