Just for the record, I didn't bring this up again. Judy Perry did. I just moved the discussion to a new thread and offered my opinion.
On 2/24/06, Thomas McGrath III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nooooooooooooooooo not this again................ > > Why does he keep bringing this up? > > > Just poking fun, > > Tom > > I can read dot but have never really 'liked' it. > > On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: > > > I seem to have a knack for starting discussion threads that are > > probably just close enough to being on topic to avoid their immediate > > crushing by Listmom Heather and yet generate significant amounts of > > message traffic for which some people here probably wish I would just > > shut up or go away. Preferably both. > > > > But Judy Perry, in the thread about Bugzilla that I started yesterday, > > said something that I thought ought to spawn a new thread, so here it > > is. > > > > She said, "Lingo went to c.dot.syntax.hell in a very short fashion... > > Please don't > > let Transcript follow behind Lingo!" > > > > I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every > > single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have > > admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk > > (which I actually think got it right) uses dot notation. Java. > > JavaScript. Lingo. Ruby. Python. All of them. It is an accepted > > convention in OO languages where it is essential to identify methods > > and attributes with object namespaces. > > > > So if Transcript does go object-oriented -- and I hope and believe it > > will, though it may be an alternative fork rather than a forced switch > > -- I hope it *does* in fact adopt dot notation so that all of us who > > have trained our brains to think in those terms when we create and > > program with objects will e comfortable doing so. > > > > FWIW. > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author > > http://www.shafermedia.com > > Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" > >> From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > Thomas J McGrath III > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Lazy River Software™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com > > Lazy River Metal Art™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/metal.html > > Meeting Wear™ - http://www.cafepress.com/meetingwear > > Semantic Compaction Systems - http://www.minspeak.com > > SCIconics, LLC - http://www.sciconics.com/sciindex.html > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
