I believe you already have the reasons identified in this email. Such
choices are rarely based only upon technical reasons. You have
identified cost, schedule demands and although "I feel good when I use
it" may not fly, implementer's productivity and learning curve issues
are valid. You may also want to identify the cost required for any of
the other implementations in terms of software components, hardware
resources, etc. I am not aware of any formal measure for a language's
level of complexity, but Java has thousands of classes in its API's and
the real challenge is learning how these operate. If the project is
already a success, particularly with a very short time to implement,
that can be a justification in itself.
I too work for a military agency and I have empathy for you. The
military mindset doesn't deal well with grey areas. They like black and
white answers.
There is always: It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
Harold Grovesteen
Brett Handley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you remind us of the structure of your solution?
>
> For example, I seem to recall that you used HTML as a GUI - is this right?
>
> Brett
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CRS - Psy Sel/SPO, COUSSEMENT Christophe, CPN"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "REBOL List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 5:37 PM
> Subject: [REBOL] Need help for justification of using REBOL as dev language
>
>
>
>> Hi list:
>>
>> As already mentioned on this list, the whole psychotechnical assessment
>> system of the Belgian Armed Forces is running REBOL...
>>
>> Well, I think personally it was the best choice I ever made as project
>> manager: REBOL is stable, ergonomical, easy to learn and use, has lot of
>> possibilities for being used to access ODBC and external libs, ... and I
>> feel good when I use it !
>>
>> But the choice of REBOL was a personal choice, not an Armed Forces
>
> standard:
>
>> it was in first instances justified by the fact the project had to be
>> operational in less than a few month... So I had no time for prospection.
>>
>> Now the project is going further and the code is getting stable, I feel
>
> the
>
>> time is coming some high-ranked folks will ask me to justify my choices,
>
> and
>
>> try to impose some standards like Java of PowerBuilder ;-(
>>
>> Well here is my request: there are lots of people - and gurus - on this
>> list, who are coming from different developing universes - like C, Lisp,
>> Java ... - and have discover the power of REBOL ... Please help me find
>> straight and technical args I could use to justify the use of REBOL. Even
>> language comparison tables should be useful !
>>
>> Perhaps we could create together a new standard for the Belgian Armed
>
> Forces
>
>> ;-))
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> chr==
>>
>>
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