Pim van Riezen wrote:
> I'm even known to grab for a Mac
> if I'm really in a weird mood :)
Heh. I've even loaded emacs and vi onto my Mac before - however,
somehow my Mac hasn't been infected - though Mac people think me
strange too as I STILL prefer MacWrite :-) ...then on Windows I tend
to favor Write. People DO think I'm strange :-)
> But we're _open source_, so the right response would be "if you code it,
> and I like it, I'll include it. If you code it and I hate it, feel free to
> start your own project. If you don't code it, forget it because my
> priorities are different."
Well.... I guess I'm more from the FORTH arena: "You see a problem?
Go write the code and fix it." or "You want new features? Go code."
and so FORTH :-)
> Other LEAF-subscribers also don't mind adding
> packages that turn it into a "network appliance", which mandates already a
> bit more flexibility.
Wouldn't be anyone I know, would it? :-)
> I've never perceived Apple to be "hiding" anything. Just get your copy of
> resedit and see how elegant, open and self-documenting the system really
> is. Apple had invented the Window Manager (known as a WDEF resource) long
> before X was an accepted standard. They also have loads of
> documentation available known as the Inside Macintosh series of books,
> giving access to every little detail of the system in much a better way
> than most open source software that tends to stick to "documentation in .c
> format." :)
An aside: I worked on a project once, where the previous programmer
had believed solely on the computer, and printed NOTHING. On top of
this, they spoke (and wrote) very bad English, not to mention BAD
documentation on top of that. Their code had comments similar in vein
to this:
# add b to c, resulting in a
a = b + c
Yuck. Fortunately for me, the programmer BEFORE the last two had
believed in the opposite: document EVERYTHING, print EVERYTHING....
nice foundation to build on.
More directly, Apple in their Apple IIe and II+ manuals included full
schematics in the back; when the Mac came out they stopped this.
Also, those Inside Mac books were for a long time available at the
bookstore; then for a time they were only available to dealers for
somewhere between US$100 and US$200 or more. Then they started
publishing them for the general population again.
> I think that this is my real point: Making things simpler and hiding
> things is not a crime, as long as you document how you did it.
I agree. Where I have problems is when the software WON'T let you do
what you want, all in the name of "user-friendliness."
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