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From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: GadTools functionality
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Date: 31 Jan 91 22:33:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 31 Jan 91 17:46:01 GMT

In article <18376@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:

   In some cases, saying
   "we're working on it" may be incorrect, since we're working
   on other things, too, and it may not have bubbled to the top of the
   list.

If it's on the list, then "we're working on it" is not an incorrect
statement. You are working on it - just not right now. Given that
you've got a limited number of people, and are trying to get a release
out the door, to infer that "we're working on it" means "we've got
someone writing code now" would be ludicrous.

   In other words, a lot of things will improve when one large difficult
   job is done.

In other words, "we're working on it."

   No, you should have not made any inferences based on the absence of
   reserved tags for the functionality you crave.

Actually, the inference wasn't based on the absence of flags or tags.
The inference was based on the response "that functionality is
insufficient" (aka "You don't want that") when I asked about them
being missing. Now, if it's insufficient and something you believe is
better is going to be made available, saying "That's insufficient;
we're going to give you something better" (aka "We're working on it")
is fine. If I ask what that "better" is and get told that you aren't
ready to reveal it; that's also fine. To be told that it's not
sufficient when it's obviously sufficient and necessary for the
problem at hand _isn't_ fine.

Being left alone in a dark tunnel is much worse than being in a dark
tunnel with the light at one end, even if you won't know whether the
light is a train or the end of the tunnel until you get there.

	<mike
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