Labor day mumblings

[Ward Griffiths]

On 09/08/2005 11:13 am, filepro-list-request at lists.celestial.com wrote:

>    1. RE: Labor Day Ramblings (John Esak)

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 06:25:54 -0400
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> Subject: RE: Labor Day Ramblings
> To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
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> n-simplistic without knowing VB.
>
> > -Of course, .net and VB programmers are a dime a dozen these days--and
> > -worth
> > -about as much, to boot.
> >
> > -mark->
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Lets not bash other languages and programmers. There are things
> > we use filePro for here and things
> > we do in .NET you couldn't dream about doing in file Pro.
> > Conversely there are things file Pro is
> > great for that .NET / java is not.
> >
> > Each language has its purpose.
> >
> > If we are a dime a dozen why do we make 150K - 200K a year ???
> >
> > C Yerry
> >
> > VB is proprietary ??
>
> Very well said...
>
> John Esak

John, it's been a few years so I need to ask again.  You own the source to the 
best word processor in history.  I'd really like to see Scripsit-16 ported to 
modern systems.  What's your price?  (For the source, since I can do most of 
the work myself, and typing the c key twice  in a row isn't rocket science).

Tell me you've dumpstered every copy of the source code and I'll never ask 
again.  I'll just consider you a jackass (and I have a great respect for you 
and your work with fP, I have since before the name reversal).

Scripsit-16 was the second most important application on the 16/6k systems and 
you well know what the first was.

I want to run Scripsit-16 natively on new systems.  My copy of Allwrite works 
fine under xtrs, but I really don't like emulators all that much and I'm not 
sure how long my T6kHD will survive.
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

Let's get real. According to the CBO's report, in the current fiscal 
year the U.S. government is gorging on some $2,142 billion of revenues, 
consisting of taxes, fees, charges, fines, and other species of 
extractions from the people's purses. This sum works out to 
approximately $7,500 for every man, woman, and child resident in this 
country, or $30,000 for a family of four average persons. Perhaps some 
of those people feel they are getting benefits worth at least this much. 
I myself don't have that feeling.   --  Robert Higgs