Re: harmful effects of gnu software

Article View: gnu.misc.discuss

Article #1700

#1700

From: Dave Hodgkinson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:23

27 lines
1681 bytes

In article <1993Jan10.170022.24756@alex.com> bryan@alex.com (Bryan Boreham) writes:

   Other things might have an equal effect on the lot of the humble 
   programmer.  Someone might invent a system which accepts a short,
   spoken desription of any software tool, and codes it up automatically.
   (Is this more or less likely than the success of GNU: discuss :-)
   Now what?  Should we hold rallies in the streets to burn all copies?

I for one would welcome such a system :-) It would polarise
programming; those people who want to get on with writing
applications, and those of us who like tinkering at the low level
trying so get such applications to run at a reasonable speed :-)

Especially true of GUIs :-))))


   Bryan Boreham

   Speaking for myself, not my employer.

Dave

-- 
Dave Hodgkinson | Nearest thing to a Chief Wizard at IISC | +44 71 628 6960
S:10 I:17 W:8 D:14 C:13 Ch: 15      About to die: daveh@cix.compulink.co.uk
            Direct, to my desk, three times a day ... dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk
   This message brought to you by the most excellent Demon Internet Service

Technical Details

Message-ID: <DAVE.93Jan11164638@dhcs.dhcs.demon.co.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!dhcs.demon.co.uk!dave

References: <1993Jan10.062319.17213@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan10.170022.24756@alex.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
From: dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk (Dave Hodgkinson)
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!dhcs.demon.co.uk!dave
Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
In-Reply-To: bryan@alex.com's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:00:22 +0000
Organization: IISC, dept of hackery.
References: <1993Jan10.062319.17213@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan10.170022.24756@alex.com>
Apparently-To: mail2news@news.demon.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:23:23 +0000
Message-ID: <DAVE.93Jan11164638@dhcs.dhcs.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
Lines: 27

Reply to Parent Message