| Re: Message From RSI VP of Engineering [message #27495 is a reply to message #27225] |
Wed, 24 October 2001 13:00   |
stevens
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Registered: July 1995
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In <3BD70EEA.ECF66A21@astro.cornell.edu>, JD Smith:
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> I really do like the analogy made by Ron Syml: how would you Windows
> users
Correction: I do not use a single piece of Macroslop ever, with the single
exception of my yearly review. The pointyhairs INSIST it be done with that
satanic abomination called MS-Word, and so I oblige them, only as it seems
a condition of my employment. I'm composing this on an NCD Xterm with slrn
on a Sun Enterprise, manage the department's Turbolinux webserver, and use
a SuSE Linux PC on the table next to me. Windows user? Hah! NEVER! :)
> like it if RSI told you they didn't want to support your system,
> and the "solution" was to run an X server with IDL for Unix; how would
> Unix users like it if they were dropped and told to run a bundled
> Windows emulation program on top of IDL for Windows?
As long as I have some options other than Windows? Like Linux or Mac? Then
I don't care. Really. I go find the tools to get the job done, and (as the
point above) select them whenever possible mostly on the basis of personal
utility and a sense of principles. It involves very little misplaced ardor
or cowed unthinking acceptance, I believe. Yearly review excepted. :)
That is NOT to say I like the RSI headfake recently on IDL OS-X ports, and
I actually looked forward to the Aqua port. Seriously.
But that's just not gonna happen, so I gotta make lemonade from lemons.
> Somehow, I doubt
> you'd chalk it up to "it's just another GUI, what do I care?"
Actually, yes, unless *speed* is absolutely crippled. Then I get bent. I'm
a radar simulations kinda guy, not a wiredup eyecandy goober. If RSI ports
IDL to OS-X using something X, I'm won't throw baby out with bathwater, on
the sole basis of a disputed pedigree.
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