From: "Dave Ings" 

Well, AWT was commonly referred to as the "Awful Windowing
Toolkit". (No I'm not kidding.)
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> way back to Turbo Pascal.  I liked his comment about the original Java AWT
> being awful for GUI work - it reflects what I saw in early Java.

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