Since we're WAY OT anyway.... Tony Plack wrote: > That being said, ordering in a command structure should make sense to the > application (less intelligent entity), not to the "programmer" (hopefully > more intelligent). >
If that were true then we really should be writing our dialplans in binary machine code, that is what that dumb computers REALLY understand. Fortunately, it's not true. We can take advantage of a GOOD programmer's skill to have the computer do the grunt work of converting something real people understand into machine code. We call the product of this process a High-Level Programming Language. A well-written application should attempt to minimize the amount of 'conversion' the user/programmer has to do. Therefore the command structure SHOULD be in a form that is natural for the user/programmer, NOT to the machine. Personally, I would vote for "show dogs colour black" but maybe I've spent too much time with Cisco's IOS! :-) regards, Drew PS. There does seem to be an assumption that programmers are intelligent, I'm not sure that this is a defensible position. ;-) -- Drew Gibson Systems Administrator OANDA Corporation www.oanda.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
