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- From: dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk (Dave Hodgkinson)
- Path: 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>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:23:23 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan10.170022.24756@alex.com> bryan@alex.com (Bryan Boreham) writes:
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- 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?
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- 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 :-)
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- Especially true of GUIs :-))))
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- Bryan Boreham
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- Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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- Dave
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