From: Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM>
Subject: Re: binding thickness indicator, was Re: GNAT, OS/2, Libraries
Date: 1996/04/12
Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9604121309.AA07484@eight-ball> (raw)
tmoran@BIX.COM sez:
>I propose we use something analogous to house insulation 'R-values'
>for indicating the thickness of a binding. R1 would be the thinnest
>possible, a la single pane window glass, like Tore's example of
>interfacing to a C routine. R50 would indicate such thickness and
>insulation that, say, code using an R50 windowing GUI binding would be
>portable across Mac, Windows, OS/2, and X-Windows.
That's not just an idea, it's a meme! Great analogy (at least for us
Americans).
Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com
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1996-04-12 0:00 Bob Crispen [this message]
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1996-04-11 0:00 binding thickness indicator, was Re: GNAT, OS/2, Libraries tmoran
1996-04-12 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Ron J Theriault
1996-04-19 0:00 ` David Emery
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