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Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:37:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Eduardo Vazquez Harte wrote:
In lugnet.trains, Cary Clark wrote:
I've been working on TrackDraw, a replacement for Track Designer, for six months
or so. I'll talk about it at BrickFest on Saturday. You can read a little about
it, and see the BrickFest PowerPoint slides here: http://www.trackdraw.com

I'm not ready to release the program quite yet.

Cary

Why you did it in MICRO$OFT .NET now if we want to use your program we need to
install 30mb of crap .NET anyway your program is the 1st ine to use it I haven't
seen any yet apart from MICRO$OFT LONGHORN a.k.a next windows in 2005



I wonder if you would feel the same when it was programmed in Java, which needs
a Java Virtual Machine installation first.
.Net is perfectly acceptable IMHO. I guess it's more an anti Microsoft thing
than anything else (the $ is a good hint for my guessing here).

-Frank



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  Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
 
(...) With all due respect, writing it in .NET leaves the non-Windows people out in the cold. Java (while it does have an occasional drawback or two) is portable and will run transparently on Windows, Macs and the various unices. This is not an (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
 
(...) Why you did it in MICRO$OFT .NET now if we want to use your program we need to install 30mb of crap .NET anyway your program is the 1st ine to use it I haven't seen any yet apart from MICRO$OFT LONGHORN a.k.a next windows in 2005 (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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