Re: A89: GIDE and Gooey crap

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: GIDE and Gooey crap
From: Scott Dial <wrath@calc.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:10:26 -0500
Organization: ByMe Inc. Technologies \ TCPA
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Btw, to made a comparison... this looks like an AOL for the internet...
"Here is a pretty looking program to do something you don't need", and
no offense (hah!) the web pages read like an advertisement rather than
to inform about it. "Break free from stupid limitations set upon by TI
and other shells, goo your programs."? What limitations do shells put
on?

Scott Dial wrote:
> 
> I am tired of people talking about this like it is something that will
> make a $300 SDK worthless. IT WON'T! The program allows you to make
> FREEWARE apps not profesional ones. The FREEWARE SDK is FREE. So what
> does this gooey crap do? It makes you use a flash app to do what doorsos
> does. The ONLY thing that this has is that it lets you make them now,
> before the SDK is released, but is it really that big a deal when
> sometime in the 1q the sdk will be released. (BTW, if you are a beta
> tester couldn't this just be leaked info on how to do it?). I mean come
> on... it is just another GUI. What advantage(s) (if you can find more
> than one) does it have? The fact is a flash app is not an advantage.
> That is a disadavantage because doorsos works seemlessly with the OS
> instead you have to run this flash app to run any asm programs. Big
> downside. I am prepared for the flames and I would like to hear everyone
> elses opinion on this but lets not just make this another
> one-line-message-"your stupid"-"I am leaving the list 'cause of this"
> thread.
> 
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A89: GIDE and Gooey crap

From: Scott Dial <wrath@calc.org>