Re: The Lambda Nature

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: The Lambda Nature
From: "Michael T. Richter" <mtr@igs.net>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Bell Solutions
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Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in message
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> The success of Unix, Windows, and C/C++ rather than MacOS
> and Lisp are examples of the "worse is better" philosophy.

MacOS isn't exactly an example to hold up as "better is better".  It's just
as bogus as any other GUI API that I've seen.  (I haven't looked into BeOS'
GUI stuff yet, so I'm holding out some hope of finding a clean, consistent,
powerful GUI API.)

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