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I especially don't buy the idea that Bill Atkinson, after demonstrating fast ellipses, would then claim that rounded rects would be "really hard." Indeed, the e
by joblessjunkie 16y ago
I especially don't buy the idea that Bill Atkinson, after demonstrating fast ellipses, would then claim that rounded rects would be "really hard." Indeed, the enhancement would be trivial.
- pavlov 16y agoI think that Atkinson probably thought that roundrects would be a useless addition that would bloat the library. (Remember, the entire Mac OS and applications needed to fit in 128K!) It's easier to dismiss something as "entirely too hard" than to get into an argument about whether it's worth implementing.
- Someone 16y agoI disagree. I think round rects have more edge cases than ovals (such as a 10 pixels high rectangle with corner radii of 8 pixels) It could also be that he thought it would be too hard because he knew he only had 42 bytes of ROM space to play with.
- toddheasley 16y agoA lot of the best inventions seem obvious after the first person comes up with them. Especially when it comes to code.
- DLWormwood 16y agoI found this in the comments of the posted article’s website: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637442 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637442
- allwein 16y agoIt's not that doing rounded rects would be hard, but that doing them really fast would be hard.
- angrycoder 16y agoEverything is trivial in hindsight.