On 15 Jul 2005 at 17:56, Randall Stokes wrote: > David W. Fenton" wrote: > > > Back in the Randy Stokes days, we had somebody like that, but who > > also was one of the programmers and could give technical > > explanations for problems. Boy, but I do miss Randy. Having him > > around really increased my confidence in Finale. > > > > And it seems that back in the days when he worked for Coda was the > > period of the greatest improvement for Finale. Since his departure, > > not much has happened to Finale except the bundling of more and more > > bells and whistles, with the reworking of only a couple major > > engraving problems. > > Wow, I don't know whether to take that as compliment or a whack > (around here we call it a "corn dog", like "you don't look nearly as > fat in that dress").
Well, sorry about the unintended insult! I had thought for sure that I'd remembered that you hadn't just stopped participating in the list, but had left MM entirely -- dunno where I got that idea. > I have spent much of that time deep within the bowels of Finale. So > you don't always see much of my work on the surface, but Finale is > faster and more stable as a result of it. Much of this will provide a > foundation for future growth. Things coming down the pike like > Mac/Intel and Longhorn are going to require considerable work for > software vendors even if it doesn't result in immediately obvious > "features". I hope the user community is prepared for that. I'm reading this as meaning you are refactoring the existing codebase to prepare for re-architecting that is going to be required in the future. That's an excellent investment of time for any codebase, and takes a huge amount of work and testing, and has no visible result for the users! OK -- I find your alibi plausible. :) [] > I now return to my cave. If you peer closely into the dark you may see > my eerily shining eyes, but not much else. Well, you're honesty, integrity and patience in explaining the details to us is something that I, for one, miss on the list. But I certainly understand how this list could be too hard to keep up with. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
