[openbeos] Re: Innovation: Design and Programming

En réponse à "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Okay, where to start...
> 
> Apple has made a very large number of innovations, Pascal is FAR
> superior to C, and C++ IS a horrible language (I feel sorry for those
> on this list who have been mislead otherwise).
At the time of the Mac I think the real innovation was the Amiga...
Besides...
#define BEGIN {
#define END }
#define IF if (
#define THEN ) {
#define else } else {
#define ENDIF }
guess who is superior now ?
(believe me, I actually saw it in the source code of a BeOS driver !)

> 
> True, the BeOS does not have any real, unique innovations.  It does
> nothing that is really new... but those things it does, it does better
> than most of the other operating systems on the market.  It is not the
> only OS doing SMP, but it does SMP better than nearly any other OS I
> have ever seen or worked with.  And LIGHTNING-fast... faster than DOS
> in some cases!
> 
Well, even if BFS didn't invent the concept of attributes and indices, ...
(XFS did it before), it brought them to the public.

> I am certainly looking forward to the release of OpenBEOS, or whatever
> it is being renamed to.  I won't give up my Macs for it, but I've been
That I know, but can't tell yet :P
(Walter Rox^W^Whmm...)

François.

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