The Great "Hard Return" Debate

Steve Wendt pmmail@rpglink.com
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:07:10 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 20:19:32 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    So now instead of using one editor you're going to go to three or four
>different authors and ask each of them to program the same thing three or four
>different times.  That is foolish.  The most efficient use of your time and
>energy and that of the various authors is to break the program down into the
>logical component pieces and only do one, define communication with the rest,
>and let you decide what is best for *YOU*.

OpenDoc could have been really awesome in this respect, allowing things to work 
seamlessly, and work how you defined things to be.  Another IBM technology down 
the drain... :(


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