On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 04:58 , Rob Cozens wrote:
> David, et al: > > A "post send" thought: Rob A couple of thoughts: Your first example of despatching a script to modify an existing stack is not to the point. Of course that is useful but it is utterly doable without resort to handles and pointers or to code which meaningfully modifies itself at runtime. This forum has many examples of people being given scripted ways of doing modifications to multiple instances of objects in their stacks, which is in the same vein, and scripted modification of client apps is a technique I have used in past years when I distributed software. I originally wrote "(I presume)" after the reference to irony but deleted it as I found it difficult to believe you were serious at the time. I understand now that you were and see desirable benefits in coding power. OK. My point, however, had little to do with whether or not we are discussing powerful programming mechanisms. I said they were and was careful to point out my own familiarity and pleasure at using them. However, my day job includes finding out why $MM projects are off the rails and trying to fix them both technically and commercially, and the techniques you are describing are not industrial strength, are not tolerable in enterprise software development. This is the history of the last 20 to 30 years of software development tools. Go ahead and use them for a stack, debug the hell out of it and you will probably have a very sweet application to offer. Just please don't tell me that this is the the way we should present as a standard set of development tools or techniques. This is a philosophical disagreement, not a technical one so for my part I shall let it slide fairly soon. I always appreciate your comments. regards David > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
