Re: Not STD C is "not C" ? ----WAS: Re: C to Java Byte Code

From: Alfred Z. Newmane (a.newmane.remove_at_eastcoastcz.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:05:22 -0800

Programmer Dude wrote:
> Thomas G. Marshall writes:
>
>> 1. OE is enormously common.
>> 2. More and more OE folks are using OE_QuoteFix
>> 3. OE_QuoteFix does not regard {space}{reply marker}
>> as part of a reply.
>>
>> So you're going to be dedicatedly producing posts that are hard
>> to reply to for a rather large number of people.
>
> TS. There is a common sense among the cognoscenti that folks who
> use OE get exactly what they deserve.
>
> An even more common sense is that it's absurd to modify ones own
> behavior for arguably defective software used by others.

Why do I get the feeling you dislike OE more for being a Microsoft
product, than for any lack of any functionality?

I've been using OE, for yeas, OE_QuoteFix is the best thing since sliced
bread for OE. Even without it, OE wasn't /never/ a horrible news reader.
Granted, not the best, but it always got the job done.

As I've mentioned before, does some jobs better than other readers, like
being able to sort "watched" threads at the top, while at the /same
time/ be able to sort by *date*, not many news readers can do this.
Hell, few readers can even sort watched threads stay at top, let alone
also sort by date. and some readers don't even have a "watch thread"
capability.

No offense to you, Programmer Dude, but I feel as though you never
really tried OE (much), if you really had given it a chance, you may or
may not be as much against it as you are now.

It's up to the eye of the beholder, but people who use and like OE are
those who have actually given it a chance and learned to utilize it's
strengths, and minimize it's weaknesses (OE_QuoteFix.)

All in all, it's not so bad a reader as many people like to /say/ it is.

(If it's really missing something, it's the ability to send control
messages other than Cancel Message's.)

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