On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:19:05PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > The world of SGML is very closed, X11 is not something they know, XT is > > > developed on MS-Windows... > > > > I see that! Those guys need to get out more. I can't fault these guys for > > releasing free software, but I do think they need to be hit over the head > > with a large beanbag that says "X WINDOW SYSTEM". > > Hey hey!! A little respect. IIRC, XT is from James Clark, C++ hacker > extraordinaire. He wrote GROFF for god's sake, the first respectable > GPL'd printing subsystem for Unix. Okay, well, I'll freely acknowledge the guy has a lot more mojo going than I do. I did only suggest the use of a beanbag, though. You know from IRC that I often prefer much crueler implements of skull-bashing, so I let the punishment fit the crime. :) As you've pointed out, though, there's no reason to expect any namespace collisions in a technical sense. All we have to worry about are those troublesome that affect only the brains of users. Like I said, I withdraw my objection for the time being. I just expect you SGML guys to join me like a pack of ravening wolves when some cluebie gripes at me about not being able to figure out how to use libXt.so as a Java class. And I'll return the favor if you ever get harangued by some guy who can't write his own personal widget set around those toolkit intristics in Java. :) "Clueless users are bad for Debian." :) -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk around branden@ecn.purdue.edu | on the Moon?" cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | "Because they were wearing heavy boots."
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