The "loop and a half"

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:54 pm, bartc wrote:

> So my programs that use Escape on Windows needed
> to use Escape Escape on Linux to get around that.


Or you could just follow the expected Unix interface instead of inventing your
own.


Back in the days when I used a Mac (long before OS X), I used to hate it when
Windows developers would port their software to Mac. With the exception of a
few big software companies like Microsoft, who had actual Mac teams, they
would do what you do: completely ignore the Apple UI guidelines and port
their unfamiliar and arbitrary user interfaces to the Mac software, making it
essentially unusable.


-- 
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.