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From: jleger@afslogistics.com (Jonathan Leger)
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Subject: Re: I know why Icon isn't popular.
Date: 20 Nov 2002 06:11:31 -0800
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message news:<arehfl$ht1en$2@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>...
> In the Unix world, the /lack/ of all of those things is generally
> considered a /benefit/, and if those technologies were added to Icon,
> that would almost certainly make it look /less attractive/ to the very
> sorts of people that would be more likely to consider Icon than the
> "Windows flunkies."
I can't say that I personally disagree. I've often wished that the
world would go back to text screens and out of Windows (or X-Windows,
for the Unix bigots). I love Icon "as is"--I really do. I just wish
that I could get a job programming Icon in the "real world."
Unfortunately the "real world" is mostly controlled by the Windows
bigots, so here I am...
>
> And before you dismiss that as a bigoted statement (which, to a goodly
> degree, it is), ask yourself if Microsoft is likely to add Icon into
> its "official tool set."
>
> The answer is "not bloody likely."
Ah, too true... but I can dream, can't I?
> Since it is /totally/ improbable that Microsoft will be replacing
> VB.Net with "VisualIcon Studio," I suggest that you're better off
> trying to sell Icon to the Unix bigots...
Well, the problem with that is that Unix bigots would almost never PAY
for anything that has to do with software development to begin with.
The first thing I'd be asking if Microsoft tried to sell VisualIcon
Studio is "Where can I get the OpenSource version?"
Jonathan Leger