Why do you need middleware unless the design sucked in the first
place? Seriously.
Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why do you need middleware unless the design sucked in the first
> place? Seriously.
Because the programmer friendliness of the design doesn't need to
make statement of it's quality. In esthetic terms, one would say that
the program is "accessible."
> BTW, I never use TLAs referring to programming (e.g. "APIs"). M$ has been
> the chief purveyor of this crap that excludes people who aren't
> TLA-enabled. It makes it sound like people know more than they
> do. "Interface" is a perfectly nice noun. Apple historically used
> "interface" and "toolkit" instead of API and SDK. I think using nouns in
> lieu of TLAs is a very good thing.
That's right. The first time the term appear in a text, at least. I
also think that some terms become part of the language, regardless of
origin. Language (human) is not a static set of words. Languages
evolve. I typed "API's," hardly thinking about it.
Apologies for the jargon.
Robert
As long as I'm here, I was wondering about two other, nonrelated
things:
1. What is TLA?
2. Now that sendmail is determining address without any instruction
from me, my E-mail address changed. I know that Mindspring bought
Netcom. It would have been very nice if they send a notice to their
subscribers. Maybe I missed it. Maybe it didn't look interesting,
so I didn't read it all the way through.
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