Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: compiling gnubg for windows (fwd)

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:02:13AM +0200, Øystein O Johansen wrote
> 
> > The idea was just to dump the equities (and luck) in comma
> > or tab separated form so it could be imported into your
> > favourite plot program.
> >
> > Of course, it's also possible to make a GTK widget to show
> > the plot natively.
> 
> Acctually, I think this is just what we need. Unix uses can
> then plot the graph in gnuplot, and Windows users can import
> the file in Excel.

Yes, this is exactly the unix philosofy: make a program that is good for
one thing. 

Otherwise we may end up as Zawinski's Law predicts [1].

Jørn

[1] http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Zawinski%27s-Law.html

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