wagadog's Journal: I have learned many interesting things on /.

I have learned many interesting things about Macs, even though I developed for them for several years.

1. That if Apple obtains an exclusive license to all UCSD Pascal future source development and thereby makes it impossible for either university researchers or other commercial outfits to use it, it is "incorrect" to call this a "purchase." It's a license . Sheesh!
2. That compiling an OS on a new machine with a different compiler is not a "port" of the OS. Thanks, MacJerry, or MacJefRankin or whatever your name is for informing me that port of UCSD Pascal to the Lisa and MAC were NOT PORTS...because they used a DIFFERENT COMPILER.
3. That because a lame idea someone published in their thesis resembles a product developed by PARC, PARC stole the idea. Even if the original lame ideas were developed into another product by another company that was discontinued after six months. This is PROOF that Macintosh did NOT steal its UI from PARC!

I have also learned many interesting things about SGI's, even though I developed for them for several years.

1. Code that compiles out of the box on several versions of gcc and several distros of linux, unix, and windows...but dies a horrible death on IRIX C...this is the fault of the code, not a problem with IRIX CC.
2. That lack of support for nested template instantiation under IRIX CC is a GOOD thing (tm).
3. That having four different incompatible floating-point representations on the same machine (IRIX again) is a GOOD thing.

Oh, where would I be without the 3l33t /.ers to tell me these useful things. They're almost as helpful as the trolls on net.women.