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Re: taking the widget plunge. help [message #21628]

Fri, 08 September 2000 01:43

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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David Fanning wrote:
>
>
>
> P.S. Let's just say I spent a couple of days writing
> documentation for FSC_PSConfig, *the* best program I've
> ever written, and no one downloads it or uses it. You just
> figure after a while, what's the point?
>

Oh, don't be so disappointed! I would say, you are just way ahead of
time! Wait until a few more people catch up with the niceties of
objects, and I am sure you will see your psconfig being used more and
more.
Also, this probably has to do with the way a lot of code gets written:
copy and paste. So, most people will have some sort of psopen and
psclose in their programs already, and they just copy it into their
new programs without thinking how it could be improved. And when they
really need to produce a beautifully scaled postscript file, it's
usually with the boss standing right behind them, so they wouldn't
dare to try out something new but rather fiddle with the device
keywords manually 6-10 times.

Cheer(s|up),
Martin

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		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 08 September 2000 01:43
		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: davidf on Thu, 07 September 2000 08:26
		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 07 September 2000 00:51
		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: davidf on Wed, 06 September 2000 13:26
		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: promashkin on Thu, 07 September 2000 08:02
		Re: taking the widget plunge. help By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 11 September 2000 16:25

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