Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: HYPER FUNCTIONALITY Message-ID: <1991Apr28.010519.14364@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Apr 91 01:05:19 GMT References: <1991Apr25.073105.23324@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 18 This discussion is getting too narrowly focused. It's all very well to trumpet the wonders of plug and play alogrithms, but without an equal effort on standardizing the data and its description on which those algorithms act, there is going to be pitifully small product of this effort. In a 1974 weather project, what made the same sets of filters and graphing algoriths work on 122 quite different data streams was that they were all thrown into a very primative framework as a time stamped sequence of scaled values with an associated structure containing the scaling constants, ascii data stream names, and so on. How about a few words from the prinicpals of this discussion on what's to be done to make that set of algorithms process the very disparate data streams and structures without hiccups? Kent, the man from xanth.