Blast! I knew it was a mistake to start an analogy ;-) Hopefully you sort of get what I mean... Same sort of sentiment that Kurt expressed.
Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: So Long and thanks for all the Fish... > 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
