Re: [MacPerl] beginner's q...

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 4.04 +0900 1999.08.07, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
>But the point I meant to refer to was the part about "free speech as in a
>dictatorship".  Bare Bones is under no obligation to give away BBEdit in
>any form, and BBEdit Lite is a very nice tool for costing nothing, and I
>thought your comment about dictatorship was unfair and inflammatory.

Inflammatory comments aside, I don't think BareBones is entirely altruistic
in it's motives for releasing  BBedit Lite, much in the same way Micro$oft
wasn't entirely altruistic in unleashing a free web browser.

Well, not quite the same thing.  But even so, who cares?  They give it
away.  I was very very happy to have BBEdit Lite when I could not afford
BBEdit as a poor college student.  I think most people who use BBEdit Lite
cannot afford to, or don't want to, buy the full version.  It gives people
the option of just having a free, nice, fast, moderately featured text
editor.  If you don't like it, don't use it.  There is no insidious plot to
kill other text editors here.  If that was the goal, they probably would
have come out with a Windows version of the editor by now.  :)


>I would not want an editor written in Perl.  I'd rather have an editor
>written in C (or C++, Pascal, Objective C, etc.) with Perl hooks.

Hmm sorry I've been reading too many Perl books and not enough MacPerl it
seems.

No, I would not want a text editor written on Perl in _any_ platform, for
the same reasons I mentioned.

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