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Re: A question



"Stephen J. Guthrie" wrote:

> No, not necessarily.  I spent four years in an Airborne Infantry battalion
> in Germany.  We patrolled the border between Czechoslovakia and West
> Germany, when we weren't running around "hut-hutting".   Wargames?  No, I
> don't think I am interested in the games.  Wargame theory?  Well, slap my
> mouth and call  me Von Neuman;-).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> Michael T. Richter <mtr@ottawa.com> wrote in message
> X_6f4.35$Va2.39@198.235.216.4">news:X_6f4.35$Va2.39@198.235.216.4...
> > Stephen J. Guthrie <steve.guthrie@mantissa.com> wrote in message
> > qf5f4.13114$Ce.319400@monger.newsread.com">news:qf5f4.13114$Ce.319400@monger.newsread.com...
> > > Wargaming? Sheesh.
>

The application is irrelevant.
My first personal use of dylan will be to write a game. So sneer at that. If I
told you that it might be for commercial purposes would it suddenly become more
worthy? My first app could just have easily been either a report generator or an
experimental preprocessor for delphi.  Are these more noble?

The only things you (Mr. Guthrie) need to know are,
- is the application, whatever it may be, of a size and complexity to make
comparisons with your work relevant?
and
- if so, how well does dylan assist in managing that complexity.


>I bring twenty years of experience in the IT industry to bear on my
>opinions, none of which were spent wearing flip-flops and playing Star >Trek
>on a DARPA Unix box.  I'm not saying anything other than " . . . if the shoe
>fits . . .".

Any more vacuous stereotypes you would like to venture on the basis of the very
few postings that Michael Richter has made here? Someone who has spent time
trying to help answer your original question.

'...of utilities to assist me in one of my hobbies:..'
The keyword here was hobby.


jt
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