13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
7:35 a.m.
From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
There is some force to the wheel-reinvention argument, but it's also
often the case that the wheels provided by the toolkit are a bad match
to the application (to varying degrees), so it's a question of whether
If no one reinvented the wheel, we wouldn't have the
pneumatic tire, and I'd hate to think what my Miata
would drive like on stone wheels.
Also, the toolkits often are themselves pretty
horrible code; I recall
the shudders that came over me, years ago, when I looked at the Xt API
Athena widgets was an improvement over all of its
_successors_. (But then my taste has been spoiled
by exposure to Plan 9 and Inferno. I won't ever
see much beauty in any of the mainstream windowing
systems again. Kind of like after TeX, everything
else makes me physically nauseous to one degree or
another.)
BLS