--- David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Antoine, > > 2006/4/13, Antoine Hersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My experience is making a good UI is a lot of works( aka way more > > than you imagine) > > My own experience is the same as yours.
Amen. > > Before choosing a solution we should set goals and there relative > > importance. My try : > > Nice summary. Could you put this on the Wiki and post the URL here? Agreed - good summary. > Regarding Emacs, Eclipse, TeXmacs, ... None of them convinced me > entirely (I'm an Emacs user, reading mail and news and coding with > Emacs). Regarding Axiom, Common Lisp is a known (and standardized) > scripting language, with a lot of documentation, tutorials and > external libraries. Axiom is already written in Common Lisp, so it > would reduce the number of languages to standardize our tools on it. Agreed. > You have underline an important point: we must use external > codes/projects because we can't reinvent the wheel. But we also have > our own long term objectives, that require a certain level of > quality. My thought on this is to try and pick the best external tool available, use it, and as time and resources become available bring it up to our own quality standards. Admittedly just a thought, at the moment. > External code will never match exactly what we need, so we must > choose, on each specific case, whether we reuse an existing solution > or re-invent one that suites better our needs. True. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
