on 19/3/00 8:56 AM, DeRobertis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 9:43 AM +1000 on 3/17/00, Adrian Sutton wrote:
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>> Adrian: Java is so 1900's. :P Nope, this year C is the language to know for
>> my course. Speaking of which, that assignments due next week... Sigh. I'm
>> also doing Software Engineering - and for the record, we're doing it
>> entirely wrong in this group. Build requirements first, get requirements
>> precisely correct and written unambiguously then code. Oh well, I don't see
>> any other opensource group doing it "the right way" either.
>
> That should tell you something about "the right way" :-)
Adrian: It is based on rigid control structures and methods. It is also
best used for large systems - the OpenSource community hasn't touched this
area yet, and probably never will. The main difficulty with developing
large systems is that usually, noone else has attempted anything like it
before. This is not true of any opensource movement that I've heard of.
>> Here's an example of what I'd like to see:
>> I'd like to call cd btn 1 "Fred" -- set the name of cd btn 1 to "Fred" or
>> even better #define Fred cd btn 1 (aliases within scripts)
>
> Evil! Evil! Define is bad enough in C, much worse in HyperTalk.
Adrian: No, no, no. The phrase #define should never be a part of FreeScript
however something like "When I say Fred, I'm referring to cd btn 1" would be
useful. It allows aliases to be made within scripts.
>> Adrian: This won't happen this semester though - and possibly not at all.
>
> You can play with NuParser when it's done. NuParser will make stuff
> like this easy.
Adrian: I'm yet to decide upon how I will tackle this project, but currently
it looks like I will use a Recursive Transition Network. My project will
directly compete with NuParser for a place in the official distribution,
hopefully this will mean that they both become highly refined machines. :)
Adrian Sutton
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