Subject:
|
Re: Almost there...almost there... :-,
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.nntp
|
Date:
|
Fri, 12 May 2000 03:51:16 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
131 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> 1. But not to post new messages; i.e. starting a thread. Which would be
> trivial to implement. But since this app is mostly reactive rather than
> proactive, that is responding to items in a news stream rather than being a
> full-featured news reader, should I put it in? Arg.
I vote no.
Since I just bought the dao of pooh (an excellent book that I read long ago but
just never owned), perhaps a few quotes from the sages of our craft?
"inside every large clumsy program is a small elegant one struggling to break
free" which is a paraphrase of one of my favorite Comp Sci quotes, and "do one
thing and do it well" which is the unix utility mantra...
++Lar
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Almost there...almost there... :-,
|
| Well, I finally got my streaming news client able to reply to messages (1) on LUGNET. It turns out I didn't need cookies after all! ...But then I vagualy remembered that this fact was mentioned in the past, but I haven't been able to find the (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
