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On 10 nov 2006, at 16.40, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> writes: >> The rot set in far far earlier, with 'awt' and 'swing'. Neither name >> cries out "widget set" to me. > > To be fair, both are acronyms: "Advanced Widget Toolkit" and > "Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay". > > hth, > /s Actually AWT stands for "Abstract Window Toolkit". Could this be because it sucks so much and does so little that you have to subclass it whether you want it or not? http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/awt/index.html /ClaesThere's stuff above here
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