On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:56:50PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote: > Am 15.09.2013 16:24, schrieb H. S. Teoh: > >On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:04:25AM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote: [...] > >>At the begining of my UNIX days, it was a pleasure to use the usual > >>set of APIs, which tend to be less convoluted than on Windows. > >> > >>Then I started looking into X11 programming with Xlib and Motif, and > >>could not believe that they managed to make it even more complex > >>than any other desktop graphics programming API! > >[...] > > > >Once, in college, I had the totally hare-brained idea of *printing* > >out the Xlib documentation. Through the department's printer service. > >It came out as a stack of paper 6 *inches* thick (you do the math as > >to how many pages that is), which I still have today for posterity. > >:-P > > > > > >T > > > > I can imagine, I remember the stack of books O'Reilley used to sell. > > The department guys were very happy with you I guess. :) [...]
Hehe... fortunately, the printer service was managed by a dedicated team, and I'm guessing they're pretty used to big jobs every now and then. I did get strange looks from them, though. :-) T -- There are four kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
