On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Why look for reasons when you can just nuke the offending code.
Sometimes there were good reasons to do strange things in the code.
Yeah, I know that. Happens often, even.
Also, sometimes there are dependencies...
Ah. A few people use those commands in dynamic patching. But that's definitely not why it was implemented. I think it's more about Miller not wanting to learn enough of Tk... nevermind that Tcl/Tk was definitely the easiest GUI toolkit ever, at the time Miller started using it (and still competes favourably, but toolkits' ease of use change a lot with the programming language).
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