[ZooLib-dev] First come, first served

[vio <vmi...@sy...>]

Hello Michael,

Just a word of encouragement and introduction on my part.
First, I just learned of the ZooLib project today. In my view, this promises to be BIG, BIG, BIG. Many thanks for opening it up.

Second, congrats on the great and very professional work on the ZooLib web site. I must say that I really liked your Apple story. Apple (PowerMac 6100/66) was my first "real" computer in 1995 (before that: zx80 - hope I recall the name correctly, then the mighty Commodore 64). That's where I learned that computers can also be very "religious" (the anti-MS feelings and bashing). As everybody, I had fallen in love with your company's products, believed its hype (you know, that the PPC was beating Wintel with ease). But then these rumors starting to pollute my Apple magazines, about my favorite fruit being slowly eaten alive by the very competitive Wintel.
Somewhere in 1997 I read Jim Carlton's excellent and very instructive (to a mere outside user) "Apple: the inside story of Intrigue, ...". To learn that God isn't using a one button mouse after all. To learn that it's not the best products that win market share, it's the best generals on the field. That ego is a deadly handicap on the heat of the battle. That Bonaparte had been reincarnated inside a body with a funny name: Gates.

Today, although my PowerMac isn't powered very often (if ever), it is still connected on my little home LAN with my Penguin box, which occasionally puts on the Win98 (non-Red) Hat for a Starcraft session.

I downloaded the lib and examples for my Linux box, and read "Future Directions for ZooLib" with great interest. As soon as I grasp an understanding of how the code works, and manage to make it do its deeds successfully, you can count me in for the linux side (though I can obviously also work on the Win98 and Mac 7.5 - oldie, agreed - I'm mostly at home on Linux).


Hope to start contributing useful code very soon.
Vio