Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:06:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas? Message-ID: <199612031706.KAA14212@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <7043.849577026@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 2, 96 05:37:06 pm
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> > > Yeah, like this will ever happen. :-)
> >
> > Well, it certainly won't if people keep implementing "user interface library
> > of the day". 8-(.
>
> Yeah, but who in their right mind is going to reverse-engineer all of
> wksh, either? I don't see any source code, and that's a much tougher
> row to hoe than simply writing a simple "GUI toolkit."
This is *such* a huge argument for grammar-based tools (which may not
be efficient to the nth cycle, but which can be easily modified) that
it almost isn't worth talking about.
I'll also point out that the "GUI toolkits" have all been largely
unsuccessful (though I haven't released my "yet another gui tool"
yet -- think that one's the charm?). Enough that the fundamental
concept needs to be questioned somewhat before someone unleashes
another one on an unsuspecting (and largely disinterested) world.
My opinion, anyway...
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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