From: firewind Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Your own Gui Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:33:38 -0700 Organization: Netcom Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <6frd1f$h8d AT news DOT euro DOT net> <6frimd$7js$1 AT client2 DOT news DOT psi DOT net> <01bd5c21$5ff352a0$3648a5c6 AT technoid> NNTP-Posting-Host: elp-tx1-01.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <01bd5c21$5ff352a0$3648a5c6@technoid> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On 31 Mar 1998, Luke Bishop wrote: > [Dann wrote:] > > No, I never did. I figured the enormous effort of writing a GUI was > > better left to MIT and Microsoft and other enormous beasts that roar > > and have teeth. > > Har har har if we all thought like that then DJGPP would not even exist. It wouldn't? Odd. I wasn't aware that DJ Delorie and Co. not -only- ported a bajillion and a half GNU utilities, but they created a ubergui as well? Neat. I wonder if it is compatible with Windblows. > > Better yet, compose a correct sentence and post that to the international > > community. > > Oh, come on!!!!! Thats just downright lame! Grammarflames aren't lame. Spam, however, is just about as lame as one can get. > > Who will write the love of the system? > > I will and I take pleasure at it! *cough* > > After all, this opportunity won't last! > > Oh god the NUKE is heading your way!!!! DUCK!!!! No, Dann always has his asbestos undergarments ready in an emergency. > > That's part of our department of redundancy department. > > No, its part of our department of multiple-fault-tolerent-redundant > backups! Are you sure it's not the department of lame comebacks? > > Your excitement has caused you to become incapable of composing a > > coherent sentence! With a project that exciting, it _MUST_ be worthwhile. > > Well why dont u write all of YOUR posts in Japanese, then? They'd get mangled, for one. Usenet is not 8 bit clean. (Hint for those who remain clueless: Usenet (meaning the 'big eights' for the -terminally- clueless) is an English medium.) > > Why scream about weaklings? > > Because we are constantly getting spammed by them. Spam. It's funny you should mention spam... -- (initiator of the campaign for grumpiness where grumpiness is due in c.l.c) Attempting to write in a hybrid which can be compiled by either a C compiler or a C++ compiler produces a compromise language which combines the drawbacks of both with the advantages of neither. -- John Winters in comp.lang.c