Title: Legos
 
 Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
 Sender: lamont@brando.ece.utexas.edu
 Subject: Lego
 From: ljw1004@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Lucian Wischik)
 
 Yesterday I decided to return to my youth and took out all my old boxes
 of lego.
 
 I was appalled. I can't imagine that once, in my youth, I used to build
 systems within such a poor development environemnt. Do you realise that
 there are no standard libraries or support tools, and that you have to
 build everything yourself from the 'basic blocks'?
 
 There's also no type system. Everything fits with everything else without
 any built-in checking, so you could put a space rocket next to a medieval
 castle and it wouldn't even warn you! (And have I mentioned that there
 are in fact _multiple_ incompatible medieval castle systems?)
 
 But what really killed it for me was the complete lack of any macro
 support. If you want ten copies of something complicated, you have to
 make the ten copies explicitly yourself!
 
 Anyway, I'm making a protest and I'm not going to buy any more until Lego
 International get their act in gear. What I'd really like to see by the
 next release is an fully customisable Integrated Development Environment.

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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