Re: RubyGems deciding version formats

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From: Claes Jakobsson
Subject: Re: RubyGems deciding version formats
Date: 21:01 on 10 Nov 2006
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

/Claes
There's stuff above here

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