Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB

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From: Lars Peter Fischer
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 07:57

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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Griffiths (dave@prim)

Dave> Just to lob the ball back into NeXT's court: there must have
Dave> been something lacking either in the documentation or the
Dave> interface to make developers _want_ to interpret raw scan codes.

Maybe the developers didn't *read* the documentation? Maybe old habits
die hard? Maybe developers who grew up on PCs need to do some real
un-learning. I've seen quite a few PC programs ported to UNIX do
strange things, going below all these nice software systems to do
things in a "familiar" PC way.

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin

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Subject: Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB
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