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To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (1498)4/29/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 2615
 
I would have nothing at all to peddle if X was superior work of art. But it is a poor compromise. Except for tools like TCL/Tk and the like it is one hard sucker to code. And program control of windows is not superior tech. X is for special projects. And it really doesn't help portability unless you are willing to recompile the source from scratch. It has worked as an "amateur" platform with many pro capabilities too, but I think its slow development of tools shows its inherent complexity. You can write windows apps by the hour. Of course the crash there is that the windows API is technically closed and the windows tools are less than fully professional i.e they won't get you a product that will compete with a MS written app. Its back to machine code to do the tough stuff and if you want that to not crash you had better be an inside-the-machine tinkerer.

Berlin is on the right track. Long time to get to the station. What are the 18 geeks day job? How are they compensated for their work?
On a similar note what is the 79.95 for the Red Hat store bought version for? Paper and ink? Is this really a non-commercial enterprise?

The beauty of my code approach is that the X commands would pass straight though without any change. So the two shells could co-exist. You would not have to rewrite any legacy code.

EC<:-}
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