From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-12-17T14:55:48+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby generate WINDOWS and dialog boxes?

Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
>> Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>>> I don't know why people hate it so much. They seem to prefer "desktop 
>>> integration" and eye-candy instead of clean, functional interfaces. 
>>> Sigh. :-(
>>>
>> Some of us have to "sell" software, at least to managers - then it 
>> matters.
> 
> Bingo! That's where we differ. I don't sell software so I haven't had to 
> deal with market pressures and bosses and customers, etc. Thus, my claim 
> might have more merit when viewed in the interest of programmer 
> productivity/laziness.

I write most of my software for myself, and I'm fantastically lazy (to 
point of borderline clinical death), but I'm with David.  Tk hurts my 
eyes.  It annoys me in subtle ways that, over time, crawl under my skin 
and gnaw at my tendons and bones.   Ow!


Looks matter.


-- 
James Britt

"Inside every large system there's a small system trying to get out".
    - Chet Hendrickson