James Donald does not exist. We can stop the flame war now. Trying to be a good net.citizen, I sent "him" e-mail to correct one of "his" line- noise-quality opinions quietly (so he might shut up) - has no one else tried this? It bounced, failing to resolve host which does not usually happen here if the site is real. So I submit the following as evidence that "he" does not exist: - com.informix.com does not seem real. - no living human being could hold such opinions and simultaneously operate his vital organs (i.e. the level of intelligence implied by his "opinions" is even lower than that necessary to support breathing and digestion) - posting pseudonymously to cypherpunks and engaging them in spurious flame argument might seem like fun to someone hostile to the anoynimity agenda and a way of generating a case that "see, anonymous/pseudonymous use of the internet angers even cypherpunks" James, if you *do* exist, I suggest you shut up now before someone you may want to work for reads your idiot posts. As for me, I am enforcing my own opinion that you do not exist by entering your "address" in my filter file. Goodbye. Those of you who care about flame wars can read the following bounced msg:
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 18:50 EST From: <MAILER-DAEMON@passport.ca> To: craig Subject: mail failed, returning to sender Reference: <m0rY0Qb-0002HEC@forged.passport.ca> Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1980
|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| jamesd@com.informix.com ... unknown host |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| Received: by forged.passport.ca (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0rY0Qb-0002HEC; Fri, 27 Jan 95 18:50 EST Message-Id: <m0rY0Qb-0002HEC@forged.passport.ca> From: craig (Craig Hubley) Subject: Re: Oops, Correction: one big error in "Even more unix holy war." To: jamesd@com.informix.com Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 18:50:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <9501272119.AA00461@carbon.informix.com> from "jamesd@com.informix.com" at Jan 27, 95 01:19:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1203
Unix has no equivalent of App Studio, etc. I have made
Nonsense. What about UIM/X, InterViews screen painter, and the many cross-platform toolkits (C++Views, Visix Galaxy, Neuron Data Client/Server Elements, Zinc, Zapp, and now Taligent... for that matter what about NextStep? And the increasing number of Smalltalk tools ?)
a little tour of people in my company who work on both unix and Windows. I (fortunately) work primarily on Windows, as you may have guessed.
I *did* guess, but never mind how. :-)
Most of my correspondents had replies along the lines of "Huh -- internationalization -- what source code tools could possibly help you with internationalization."
Zinc runs off a special purpose OODB. Translating a GUI from one language to another is a matter of setting a flag at runtime... everything switches from English into Spanish or whatever.
James A. Donald
Sorry James, your opinions on this matter are line noise. Posts with this subject and your name on them will be ignored. Please consult the various FAQs on Unix programming and crossplatform toolkits before wasting bandwidth with this pure nonsense again.
So much for your free education.
Craig