Just to prove that you can prove practically anything with a good analogy....
Imagine that you are that "mechanic" coming in to sort out the wiring on a machine, only to find that the wiring was done by three different people who used three different wiring schemes. Different colour wires for positive, negative, earth, different conventions for circuit layout, capacitors with their outputs connections in different positions etc. Do you think you would be pleased at the previous mechanics innovative use of the available flexibility or would you be wishing that had stuck to a single standard (ie programming language)? ;-) David. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss > Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 1:51 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: So Long and thanks for all the Fish... > > > Don't know about that Alex, if you were a good mechanic you would be > comfortable using lots of different tools, probably across more than one > discipline too (mechanical, electrical etc). You could make the > same analogy > with lots of occupations. Is programming much different? Each tool is > designed for a specific purpose. Imagine a mechanics tool that > could fix any > car problem! > > > Anyway, good luck James. > > Phil. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Kouznetsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:02 PM > Subject: Re: [DUG]: So Long and thanks for all the Fish... > > > > > Gone are the days of a single language ... > > > > > > eg I use on a regular basis these days Delphi, HTML, JScript, SQL (MS > SQL7 > > > and Interbase stored procs) etc etc. > > > > > > Plus a few others ... and it's not by choice either. And I could name > > > another half dozen I have used at various times. Gee must be > getting old > ... > > > > No you are not. > > What you have descibed is a mess we have been dragged into and there is > nothing > > good in it ! > > And it did not exist 10-15 years ago. > > And I hate this mess and welcome dot NET, which is not out > there to get us > to > > use many languages, it does quaite an opposite - it allows us > to stick to > a > > single favorite language and be able to do everything in this language. > > > > Regards > > Alex > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
