There are rumors of a blood testing scandel which is bound to come out with a Dole presidential campaign. Her management of Red Cross left many enemies and I think her campaign will become quite messy.
Having been a C++ zealot in a previous life I am compelled to ask how Donald Knuth could have discovered all that useful stuff way back when. You do not suppose he may have dirtied his hands with Fortran or Assembler do you?
Good and useful programs can be created for KDE and for GNOME. If we have to suffer competition between these desktops, let it be a competition of how many programs, how useful they can be and how cleverly they are designed. Who really cares if they are coded on punch cards or even patch cable cards. KDE has some cool features and GNOME has some cool features. Both teams deserve plenty of credit for what they have brought to Free Software. Both desktops will undoubtedly be better for having the other to measure their progress against. Bashing Free Software efforts is an exercize for those who would restrict our freedom as programmers (M$ Moles?).
Programming language dogma quit being a measure of SW fluency about the same time that vacuuming the lint out of core quit being a recurring requirement - unfortunately somebody forgot to inform the neo cyber zealots. Get a life guys - write some free software!
(Not directed at any msg in particular but the seediness of the thread in general)
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There are rumors of a blood testing scandel which is bound to come out with a Dole presidential campaign. Her management of Red Cross left many enemies and I think her campaign will become quite messy.
Having been a C++ zealot in a previous life I am compelled to ask how Donald Knuth could have discovered all that useful stuff way back when. You do not suppose he may have dirtied his hands with Fortran or Assembler do you?
Good and useful programs can be created for KDE and for GNOME. If we have to suffer competition between these desktops, let it be a competition of how many programs, how useful they can be and how cleverly they are designed. Who really cares if they are coded on punch cards or even patch cable cards. KDE has some cool features and GNOME has some cool features. Both teams deserve plenty of credit for what they have brought to Free Software. Both desktops will undoubtedly be better for having the other to measure their progress against. Bashing Free Software efforts is an exercize for those who would restrict our freedom as programmers (M$ Moles?).
Programming language dogma quit being a measure of SW fluency about the same time that vacuuming the lint out of core quit being a recurring requirement - unfortunately somebody forgot to inform the neo cyber zealots. Get a life guys - write some free software!
(Not directed at any msg in particular but the seediness of the thread in general)