From: Nils van den Heuvel <n DOT heuvel AT wxs DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: Your own Gui
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 13:33:27 +0100
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firewind wrote:
> 
> 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

WOW!!! I wish I had your sense of humour....

NOW STOP THE FLAMES AND WRITE SOMETHING USEFULL.....

Nils