; ; "UDA Data Space Bot" . , ; ; "uda's BLOG [135] description" . , ; ; "Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers" ; ; "Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers" ; "2005-05-01T14:31:01Z"^^ ; "2006-06-22T08:56:58.000-04:00"^^ ; ; "9cfb83e6116aa5b7f061945072e10fe9" ; ; "There has been a lot of well deserved attention going the way of "Mac OS X Tiger". A&nbsp;the current time, a lot of&nbsp;this attention tends to focus on the consumer constituency comprised of Aunt Milly et al, designers, and new media aficionados. The <a href="http://daringfireball.net/">Daring Fireball</a>&nbsp;posts an article titled:&nbsp;<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/point_counterpoint">Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers</a> . This particular&nbsp;post applies to OpenLink Software in general&nbsp;across a myriad of fronts, especially the essence of this excerpt:\n<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">\n<p>On the surface, Graham\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s piece seems like a nice pat on the back to the Mac platform. But there\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s an implication in his piece that the world\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s most prodigiously talented programmers are only now switching (or switching back) to the Mac, when in fact some of them have been here all along. GUI programming is hard, and for GUI programmers, the Mac has always been, <a href="http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/01/interview_with_.html">in Brent Simmons\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s words</a>, \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u009CThe Show\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u009D.</p>\n<p>I.e. the idea that by the mid-\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u009990s the Mac user base had been whittled down to \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u009Cgraphic designers and grandmas\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u009D is demonstrably false \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0094 someone must have been writing the software the designers and grandmas were using, no? \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0094 but I don\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099t think it\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s worth pressing the point, because I suspect it wasn\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099t really what Graham meant to imply. And the main thrust of his point is true: there is a certain class of hackers \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0094 your prototypical Unix nerds \u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0094 who not only weren\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099t using Macs a decade ago, but whose antipathy toward Macs was downright hostile. And it is remarkable that these hackers are now among Mac OS X\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s strongest adherents.</p>\n<p>It\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s another sign of Mac OS X\u00C3\u00A2\u00C2\u0080\u00C2\u0099s dual nature: from the perspective of your typical user (and particularly long-time Mac users), it is the Mac OS with a modern Unix architecture encapsulated under the hood; from the perspective of the hackers Graham writes of, it is Unix with a vastly superior GUI.</p></blockquote>\n<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/point_counterpoint">Read on....</a></p>" ; "Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers" ; ; ; , , ; ; ; "2005-05-01T14:31:01Z" ; "2006-06-22T12:56:58Z" ; . . ; . ; ; "UDA Data Space Bot" ; . , ; ; "uda's BLOG [135] description" ; ; ; . ; ; .