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 18:49:03 -0700
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Gautam N. Lad / Vimal N. Lad wrote:

> If this is to be a GUI for DOS, then here's what I have to say:
> Although you may fine me to be some Microsoft Advocate, why bother 
> re-inventing the wheel?

There's a wheel being reinvented here, but it isn't Microsoft's. Microsoft
Windows is perhaps better compared to a square wheel than the more useful
round variety.

> Why not learn Windows programming...?

Maybe they aren't sadomasochists? 

-- 
(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