Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Fri Sep 29 03:17:39 EDT 2000


Dirk-Ulrich Heise wrote:
> 
> "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > This brings up an interesting point. I really don't think open source has
> > reached critical mass on either Windows or Mac yet. A large part of this
> is
> > that most applications on those platforms still don't come with source
> code.
> >
> > There are plenty of developers who *do* release source code on these
> > systems, but they are generally released as *complete* source code i.e.
> > there is no encouragement to tinker with the source.
> 
> ??????????
> You mean something like, "it works, so i won't touch it"?
> (Yeah okay, i'm frightened still every time i gotta launch
> MSVC, but then, i get paid for it)

Care to elaborate on your fear, uncertainty, and doubt? <wink>

I use MSVC daily, and I really don't know what there is to be frightened
about.  I actually get a warm, comfortable feeling each time I use it. 
It always generates correct code (for me, at least), and its IDE is far
slicker than any other IDE I've seen.

But speaking of "fear, uncertainty, and doubt": what I really fear is
Word.  I'm afraid it won't let me enter text above a graphic.  I'm
uncertain, if I add a column to a table that the column will then appear
on the page.  And I doubt that it will let me control the section
numbering in my own document.

However, in the case of Excel, I have no fear, uncertainty, or doubt. 
Oh, except that I'm somewhat afraid--uncertain really--that numerical
calculations will be accurate down to many significant digits.  In fact,
having been really burned on that once, I have begun to seriously doubt
that.

(Then again, Star Office is nothing to write home about, either. <wink>)

elmer-ly y'rs,

=g2
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