11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
8:44 p.m.
On 10/11/2011 11:09 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
For that I apologize. Other people have claimed that of me, not you.
I am heartened to hear this.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Now, before
people like Toby latch onto that and scream at me for
"hating GUIs" or "hating anything modern" or whatever people like to
push my buttons about, I LOVE GUIs, and I LOVE modern things.
Lately you are ascribing to me a lot of positions, or anticipating
assertions, that I haven't made. For example, I never said you hate
GUIs, or hate anything modern. Most of what I was saying was defending
the web as a decent (if not perfect) implementation of remote computing
services. Some of my points blurred into the internet, admittedly (like
streaming video), but TCP/IP isn't perfect either. Nothing is perfect,
is it. Try calming down a tad. I'm not the Antichrist.
After all, I like
Scheme. :)
:)
It's just
that I love the concept of "using the right tool for the job" even more.
If that tool happens to have been introduced to the world at an earlier
time than some other tool, then so be it, it's still the right tool for
the job. Period.
Many old ways were wonderful, I'm often the first to say so.