On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:35:54 -0500 Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote:
> [Warning, philosophical tangent.] > > The thing that strikes me is that it feels like we are doing > something fundamentally wrong if a sensible way to write "Hello, > World!" (or "Hello, I'm a GUI widget!") could possibly be: "Fire up a > Linux VM.". (Or a Docker container...) I totally agree with your philosophy. Those who disagree will say "don't reinvent the wheel", but how many times do you see code where the author, in need of a spoke nipple, welded on an entire wheel instead of just using a spoke nipple? SteveT _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss