Re: [boost] Reason for Java's Success

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-30 11:48:22

Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> That may be true as a practical matter.  I believe Suman was talking
>> about what users will accept, rather than what anyone has "a right" to
>> do.
>
> Understood. I apologize for my tone. Still, I simply do not buy
> this "comfortable with the existing standards" thing. OS vendors,
> including MS, change the L&F all the time. People adjust quickly
> unless the L&F is too alien.

It's one thing when all your apps change at once.  When they're all
different, it may be quite another.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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