From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Your own Gui
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:33:38 -0700
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On 31 Mar 1998, Luke Bishop wrote:

> [Dann wrote:]
> > No, I never did.  I figured the enormous effort of writing a GUI was
> > better left to MIT and Microsoft and other enormous beasts that roar 
> > and have teeth.
> 
> Har har har if we all thought like that then DJGPP would not even exist.

It wouldn't? Odd. I wasn't aware that DJ Delorie and Co. not -only- ported a
bajillion and a half GNU utilities, but they created a ubergui as well? Neat.
I wonder if it is compatible with Windblows.

> > Better yet, compose a correct sentence and post that to the international
> > community.
> 
> Oh, come on!!!!!  Thats just downright lame!

Grammarflames aren't lame. Spam, however, is just about as lame as one can
get.

> > Who will write the love of the system?
> 
> I will and I take pleasure at it!

*cough*

> > After all, this opportunity won't last!
> 
> Oh god the NUKE is heading your way!!!! DUCK!!!!

No, Dann always has his asbestos undergarments ready in an emergency.

> > That's part of our department of redundancy department.
> 
> No, its part of our department of multiple-fault-tolerent-redundant
> backups!

Are you sure it's not the department of lame comebacks?

> > Your excitement has caused you to become incapable of composing a
> > coherent sentence!  With a project that exciting, it _MUST_ be worthwhile.
> 
> Well why dont u write all of YOUR posts in Japanese, then?

They'd get mangled, for one. Usenet is not 8 bit clean.

(Hint for those who remain clueless: Usenet (meaning the 'big eights' for
the -terminally- clueless) is an English medium.)

> > Why scream about weaklings?
> 
> Because we are constantly getting spammed by them.

Spam. It's funny you should mention spam...

-- 
(initiator of the campaign for grumpiness where grumpiness is due in c.l.c)

Attempting to write in a hybrid which can be compiled by either a C compiler
or a C++ compiler produces a compromise language which combines the drawbacks
of both with the advantages of neither.
    -- John Winters <john AT polo DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> in comp.lang.c