Re: [OT] News readers (was Re: A missing feature of APL expressed

Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:

> I have Thunderbird installed on other machines: it's a great piece
> of software and I use it from time to time to double-check my CSS (not tha
t
> it makes a real difference since our customers are ALL Internet Explorer
> based). I never used its mail-news reader since it's too much of a hassle

Well, one possible solution is to read the APL fora with the APL-enabled
browser, and to keep the old browser for the other fora. As they say "if
it is not broken, do not fix it" ;o)


> Personally I don't care much, as long as I
> can understand what a poster is trying to say: the connection at the offic
e
> is fast enough and most of the time the code samples are so simple that
> transliterated or not are still easy to understand.

Well, I may seem lazy, but what is nice with cutting and pasting APL
code that works is that one do not need to waste any time trying to
understand it in order to use it :o) This is a very very nice feature
especially with language like APL or Perl :oD