net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) (03/02/90)
In article <4885@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes: > In article <20372@bellcore.bellcore.com> sjs@bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes: > >> >"What's bigger than a major Interstate?" > >> > "The source for the X-Windows version of 'Hello World'." > > > >"What's eight lines long?" > > "The source to the NeWS version of 'Hello World'." > > "What's six lines long?" > The source to the WINTERP version of 'Hello World'. This thread is getting childish (``The BLAH-toolkit version of Hello World is only N lines long!'' ``Gee, look, the TURBO-version! It's only TEN CHARACTERS long!'' etc.) The original article was at least funny, and now everyone is just posting a stupid plug for his or her favorite toolkit or hobby. Haven't we been through this just a couple of weeks ago? By the way, I find it questionable to use the number of lines of "Hello World" as an indicator for the quality of a toolkit or window system. It's almost as useless as MIPS -- while it may be good for posting ads for a product, it doesn't really tell much about the functionality or quality. So how about a comparison based on reasonable, technical arguments instead of "Hello World"-size? -- Oliver Laumann net@TUB.BITNET net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de net@tub.UUCP