earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON) (02/10/90)
In article <398@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes: >In article <6413@internal.Apple.COM> escher@apple.com (Mike Crawford) writes: >>[text omitted] One can customize MPW quite a bit, but it is big and >>bloated, won't run on my "little" 2-Meg Mac at home... > >Runs fine on my "little" 2-Meg II at home! It's Shar-day that I can't >run... (I refuse to pronounce it "SADE"). I would pronounce it "Sade," as in "Marquis de Sade," the fellow who gave his name to sadism. I do not mean to imply that Macintosh programming resembles sadism or any other perversion, of course. Earle R. Horton
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (02/10/90)
In article <10522@microsoft.UUCP> earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes: > I would pronounce it "Sade," as in "Marquis de Sade," the fellow >who gave his name to sadism. I do not mean to imply that Macintosh >programming resembles sadism or any other perversion, of course. If macintosh programming resembles a perversion, it's masochism. Maybe Apple just couldn't come up with something for which MASOCH was a reasonable anagram. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner
ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath) (02/11/90)
From article <10522@microsoft.UUCP>, by earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON): > I would pronounce it "Sade," as in "Marquis de Sade," the fellow > who gave his name to sadism. I do not mean to imply that Macintosh > programming resembles sadism or any other perversion, of course. > > Earle R. Horton Of course, if we wanted an appropriate name for debugging on the Mac, it would have to be "Marat." =Ned Horvath=
lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) (02/14/90)
In article <10522@microsoft.UUCP> earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON) writes: > I would pronounce it [Apple's symbolic debugger] "Sade," as in "Marquis de > Sade," the fellow who gave his name to sadism. I do not mean to imply that > Macintosh programming resembles sadism or any other perversion, of course. For some reason, there is a long history of naming Mac debugging tools with names suggestive of S&M. This originated, I believe, with Steve Capps' "Discipline" tool, which checked the parameters to trap calls before the calls were actually made. It was continued with Steve Jasik's "Bondage" package (now named "The Debugger"). I'd have to agree that there's a strong element of masochism involved in Mac programming, though... Masochist: Hurt me! Sadist: No! =========================================================================== David N. Schlesinger || "There's a word for it: words don't The Wollongong Group || mean a thing. There's a name for it; Internet: Lefty@twg.com || names make all the difference in the POTS: 415/962-7219 || world..." -- David Byrne ===========================================================================