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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
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Subject: Re: Snap-On Power Tools [was: Hyper Functionality]
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Date: 18 Apr 91 18:13:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.065847.8050@agate.berkeley.edu> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>
>>Where does it exist? What exists that allows me to programmatically
[...]

>I absolutely positively don't want this thread to die. :)

Thanks.

>As far as I am concerned this is the extensibility that ARexx promised, but
>which is really beyond the means for it to deliver.

What many people don't understand is that AREXX, Exec, Intuition, and
PPIPC messages can all co-exist with this environment. Arexx to provide
the 'standard' external control mechanisms.

>Why so many Amiga programmers continue to spit out boring MS-DOS/Mac-type
>software is really beyond me.

I was beginning to think I was alone... I almost get sick nowadays when
I have to sit and listen to MSDOS programmers talk about their 'latest
accomplishments' - doing stuff that is little more than a remake of
stuff I was doing in PLM-80 on ISIS-II back in '79 or a remake of some
Unix capability from the mid 80's!! It is really painful to see that
they haven't really progressed that much in 12 years.

>If there were 100hours to the day I'd be writing all of these.  As it is, I
>haven't included my favorite, because I am writing it...

Mind discussing it or do are you trying to upstage 'Onion' ? :^)

>This goes beyond data sharing -- dynamic or otherwise.  More like a
>program requesting certain functionality, and a SupremeServer trying to meet
>those demands within the resources of the computer system at hand.

Exactly. Snap-On Power Tools for Computers...

>There are some technical difficulties for the general case.  I will be
>working rather hard all summer to find and fix as many as possible, so 
>STAY TUNED!

Well then, how about an entertaining commercial?

>> "What will happen to our memory now that we can keep it on paper?"
>
>>From experience :: it gets shredded.
>   see reference :: Iran Contra Hearings.

And I though I had come up with a good oldie that would last a while.
Went all the way back to the Greek philosophers for that one...

You get my other 'oldie':
=====================================================================
                  "Duct Tape is like the Force...
It has a Light Side, a Dark Side, and it holds the Universe together"
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Old motocrossers should remember this one, (or at least identify with it :^)

Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu