On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Sam Tregar wrote: > Ah, gimme a break. You want to convince me that > non-programmers can find their way to the party with a > fancy GUI? Go right ahead! I'll let you wear the > moose-hat for a whole week if you succeed. However, > that doesn't mean I'm going to stay quiet about just how > unlikely I think it is!
you apparently didn't read my second-to-last message in this thread, in which i explained that non-programmers are not the subject of the original idea. altho kylix was discussed in the first post of the thread, my actual reply to you stood on its own as a condemnation of a general cliquish attitude. > Kylix is not a new idea - it's an old, mostly > unsuccessful one ported to Linux by an old and mostly > unsuccessful company. If it had worked then we'd all be > out of business and most commercial apps would be > "written" by business majors with Delphi. but microsoft visual studio blah blah .net blah blah is quite popular, isn't it? and many commercial apps /are/ written with that toolset, aren't they? once again: give people tools they are comfortable with, and they are more likely to try alternative technologies and perhaps find their way to the party. maybe if i said "maybe activestate could make komodo generate cgis and mod_perl modules", you'd find the idea more interesting. cos you know, people actually write code with komodo.
