Re: Gideon: the gui designer

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Dick Eimers wrote:

> > > I believe that programming language independent and cross-platform
> > > descriptions/declerations of GUIs using some XML-dialect (Glade-XML,
> > > XUL, or spare me, even XAML) are the future. Such descriptions can be
> > > loaded at runtime by some toolkit specific loader and hereby have the
> > > advantage of being independant of the underlying GUI-toolkit
> > > (GTKmm/libglademm, GTK/libglade, QT/? or whatever) and hence are more
> > > likely to be reused.</truism> That said, there are a few XML-dialects
> > > trying to become the 'de facto' standard of which Glade-XML is our
> > > favorite, of course! So why not support Glade-XML as adding yet another
> > > format is not going to help the Glade-XML case? 
> > >      
> > Hmm...   where do they sell the Glade-XML koolaide anyways?
> >
> > Bob
> >    
>
> What do you mean? ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=koolaide
> yields nothing.. )
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I'm sorry. I used an American political colloquialism that refers back 
to the 1978 mass suicide of all members of a religious cult lead by a 
man named Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana.  The mass suicide of the 
cult's 918 members (including women and children) was accomplished by 
drinking a cyanide laced fruit punch.   Fruit punch is one of the most 
popular flavors of a soft-drink mix in America known as Koolaide.  Since 
then, anyone that blindly follows an ideology is known as a "koolaide 
drinker."

Look here 
http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=14112&messageID=284082&start=14  
for another usage of this colloquialism on another subject.