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Aaron Lehmann aaronl at vitelus.com
Mon Jul 31 19:37:21 PDT 2000


On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:54:37PM -0700, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Tuesday, 01 August 2000, at 01:39:32 (+0100),
> Paul J Collins wrote:
> 
> > Well, every journey starts from a known point.  In the case of
> > Nautilus, Explorer and derivatives.  In the case of EFM, the Amiga
> > Workbench.
> 
> Indeed.  Except that Explorer is icky.  :-)
> 
> > Frankly, the cost exacted by EFM (and E) for being different is too
> > high for my taste.
> 
> That is of course a choice that only you can make.  E isn't for
> everyone.  Neither is EFM.  Neither is Eterm, or GNOME, or KDE, or
> MacOS X, or Nick's mom.  Well, okay, maybe Nick's mom.  But not the
> others.
> 
> > Maybe the numbers are fast to parse, but the cpp overhead has to be
> > factored in, too.
> 
> The numbers thing was there before the cpp thing, IIRC.  It was
> thought that the flexibility offered by cpp outweighed the slight
> speed hit, and since we were already going to pre-parse anyway, why
> pre-parse to text when you can pre-parse to numbers which parse
> faster?
> 
> > Frankly, I'd rather not.  CPP hackery has never held much appeal for
> > me.
> 
> Bah.  I love macros. :-)

Oh shit, don't remind me of libmej....

Are there actually any functions in it?

> > Will I be able to give different themes to different windows?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > No problem, we shall do so.  Is he the guy with the hat?
> 
> He has many hats.  All of which are tall, multi-colored, and appealing
> only to drunks and Australians.

When I feel really horney and tune into his webcam he never is wearing
a hat.

> I'm sorry, was that last bit redundant?

No, the idiots in Parlimant were suffering from an extreme lack of alcohol.






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