From grey.havens@earthling.net Wed Aug 30 11:45:51 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16903 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2000 18:45:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Aug 2000 18:45:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO postfix2.free.fr) (212.27.32.74) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 18:45:50 -0000 Received: from [172.21.21.22] (paris11-nas6-50-143.dial.proxad.net [212.27.50.143]) by postfix2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3A67409C; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:45:44 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:28:11 +0200 (CET) X-Sender: elrond@burp.n To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] Just in case you're interested In-Reply-To: <68.6e77bb5.26de73f8@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Elrond > << I hastily hacked in a little user interface for my translation > work. ... This is a c++ program for unix systems. >> > > Thanks. But I would be more thankful if you -- and other programmers in this > project -- made tools for general rather than elitist users, that is, for > MSDOS, Windows and even Macintosh. Remember that there are a 1000 potential > users for these for every unix/linux/whatever user and several even within > this small Logical Language clique. I do not agree, but I won't bother starting an argument over this point (flamebait). Additionnally, I just can't imagine programming for msdos/windows, it is *far* more difficult for me: first I do not have such systems available for work, and next the hassle required in just *finding* or configuring programming tools for these systems is beyond what I'm ready to put in it. If others want to take the time, fine, but I won't. However, I think I *will* get myself involved in some more Java stuff. I really like Java, but I am still moving from one home to another and the various computers I have which fast enough for a JDK are still buried deep in the boxes. Maybe in two week or three. Regards, raph PS: and *please* remember that this program I made is just a quick hack to start a different work. I thought it *could* be interesting to other people, but I didn't make it to be.