18 Aug
2004
18 Aug
'04
10:04 a.m.
[...]
And realy yes, MS gave eMail a bad name, especialy with
their stupid way of quoteing. I mean, can this be called
quoteing at all? Adding the whole mail and just puting
the cursor at the beginning? I get often mails at work
that are the result of 10 or more such actions ...
Maybe the guy who invented the shit was a huge fan of
HP calculators ... reading previous mails in reverse order.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
HP calculators are the only ones I use (I must have a few 10's of them
now) _becasue_ they're the only ones that do things in a logical order
(namely a function is executed when you press the key, there are no hidden
pending operations).
Infix notation is like M$. It only survives because people are used to
it. Once you've learnt something better (prefix or postfix notation), you
never go back.
-tony