[REBOL] Re: JAKA: Just Another Killer App
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 18-Aug-2001 16:30
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:13:54AM +1200, Andrew Martin wrote:
> > I'm aware that there are a number of POS applications written originally
> for DOS, with Text-Cell style User Interfaces.
> >
> > Some users of these are having a lot of problems with upgrades. Without
> knowing much about the details, I would guess that Windows is making it much
> more difficult to program "DOS-style" applications.
> > The developer might be faced with some hard choices, among those would be:
> > Write a Windows-style GUI...
>
Retorical statement on my part.... :>)
> I think it requires the developer to change too much of their own mindset to
> move from DOS to Windows applications. I've been working with a developer
> who's migrating a DOS program to Windows. He's doing a very poor job of it.
> The resulting program looks like a poorly written conversion of the DOS
> program. The windows way is to bring the data to the foremost, while keeping
> process and procedure to the background. Doing it the windows way requires
> many changes in the developer, not just the programming language.
As I expected. And perhaps a developer might consider a a /view front end?
Or you could could write it for him!
--
There are million ways NOT to do something.
It could be easier to find the ONE way to do something
than the million ways not to
--Curmudgeous Rebolous
