On 10/19/2013 10:56 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > When it was implemented, there *was* no standard. It wasn't made up as a > standard. It was simply implemented in some arbitrary way, and later > retroactively made into a "standard".
Yeah, that's true, isn't it? I forget the early history of this stuff, before ASCII, way before ANSI, when every teletype machine and every terminal (if terminals even existed that far back) basically did whatever the hell it wanted. That was an interesting moment of reflection. The evolution of computers in general just shows how people who think like programmers have always cared more about the interesting technical details than about actually making an interface for the damn thing that's convenient or usable. Just hack something together with duct tape and a bit of string, and get back to business on the technical stuff. Thus punch cards were born. And half the features in Rosegarden, for that matter. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
