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In-Reply-To: Message from Elrond <grey.havens@earthling.net>  of "Tue, 09 May 2000 00:10:25 +0200." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005090005350.8826-100000@tam.n> 
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:19:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [lojban] Logflash 
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>> > > (I'm planning a version of logflash's algorithm for UNIX. If there are any
>> > > suggestions, please feel free to make them.)
>
>> No, I meant I'm doing a complete rewrite from the algorithm statement, in
>> C, using ncurses.
>> 
>
>	Using C is probably a very good idea, 

Strongly agree.

>using ANSI/POSIX would be yet even better so that it is very portable
>at the end (I can help you with that), 

Agree.  GNU autoconf is also good.

>and of course make it GPL'ed. ;-)) 

Strongly disagree.  The GPL is viral in a very virulent and obnoxious
way.  Use the LGPL or put it in the public domain or something.

>I also suggest making the source as modular as possible, so that it is
>easy to implement an X interface once the ncurses is done.

Agree.

-Robin

-- 
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