jhenzie

If this comes to pass, one has to wonder if, just as political incompetence brought about the sunset of American world dominance, this sort of short sighted, ethically bankrupt, style of capitalism will not go unpunished.

I have no doubt that IBM is awash with inefficiency, however, I do not imagine that the companies future propsects, reputation and commercial viability figure as highly in this deciscion as the vast sums to be paid to executives to meet arbitrary figures, probably set by the same people making the deciscion and reaping the reward.

One can only hope that at some point in their lives, someone will visit the same misery on these people that leaks so freely from their fountain pens.

I have been following dylan for a while and I really appreciate its aesthetics.

I never really understood why Apple ceased development, other than a baby with the bath water mistake; it seems a far more appopriate and elegant language than objective-c for application development.

I'd appreciate all your comments and I would especially like to know how Paul G feels about Dylan as a blubbified lisp / scheme.

Paul, can we play with arc, go on, please, you know you want us to really, go on mate, have a heart. <smile/>

An excellent example of how to use technology to make a system seamless and intuitive. We would all do well to understand that it doesn't matter if the system is written in ab programming language, using the xyz framework and rst database; it is the fact that it usable and available that makes it a successfull application.