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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.
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Wil Stark,
wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com
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