Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Recommend a C compiler? (frivolous comment) Message-ID: <1SV1br#8yFGct=eric@snark.uu.net> Date: 18 Aug 89 22:15:27 GMT References: <660054@hpclwjm.HP.COM> <17200@ut-emx.UUCP> <1989Aug17.162646.21826@utzoo.uucp> Sender: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Lines: 13 In <1989Aug17.162646.21826@utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer wrote: > (Please don't tell me about the various pieces of junk with three-letter > names ending in "GA". The early members of that family are to graphics as > crayons are to Rembrandt.) Much as I hate to defend IBM, and loath as I am to contradict you, I submit that including 'VGA' as a piece of junk is untrue and unfair. Jaded as I am after many a NCGE, the X kaleid demo on my new VGA monitor blew my socks off. Of course, you did say *early* members.... (color X is fuuUUUUuuunnn...) -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)