On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr>wrote:
> > On Jul 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > I love that scenario :) > > This is great that powerful tools let us imagine and build solutions > that would not be possible > > before. Power to imagination… > > > And it is an example for a building block that helps to build things. > Things that are *impossible* > without it. > > Another way to view Fuel is that of a scientific experiment: We > empirically study the existing > (ImageSegment). Without pre-concived notions to replace it! (We actually > thought ImageSegments > would turn out to be the greatest thing ever and just needed some > documentation/more understandable > implementation). > Indeed. I remember my first months in Douai for my PhD making drawings to understand the IS primitives :) And then Martin arrived hahaha. > -> You study the existing > -> You claim that you can do better > -> You do better. > > And then the next step is *extremeley* importnat: > > -> You prove that it is better for real by *replacing* ALL the existing > subsystems that do the same. > > That last part is very essential: in the end, you often see that it is > actually not that easy. > That's a real good point. In Spanish I would say "Los pingos se ven en la cancha" > > So *replacing* is important. The other thing important is to realize that > it enables things that are impossible > without. > > +1 Fuel is getting more and more users. Even in BioInformatics: http://biosmalltalk.blogspot.fr/2012/07/custom-serialization-of-big-dna-or.html http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Software-using-Fuel Cheers, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
