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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Hyper Functionality [was Re:  Amiga Conversion...]
Message-ID: <dillon.7115@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:02:17 GMT
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In article <MWM.91Apr29122929@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.071720.17169@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
>
>   The point I am trying to pound home is that ppIPC is DESIGNED to do jobs
>   that ARexx is not (and vice versa of course).  Even though you CAN drive a
>   screw with a hammer, choose the best tool for each job.
>
>The point I'm trying to make is that the Rexx Message protocol may be
>..
>ppIPC is certainly better for the job at hand. But is it enough better
>to justify adopting yet another standard (thus adding to their major
>feature - that there are so many to choose from), and giving up a
>nice, interpretive language for prototyping things in?
>
>Yes, choose the best tool for each job - but the "best tool" isn't
>always the one that is technically the best; the rest of the world
>needs to be considered.

    On the otherhand, if you decide to stick to one thing forever you wind
    up in the same boat as all the poor IBM-PC users trying to run MSDOS
    compatible programs from Windows.

    Like AREXX, if ppIPC isn't *required* to use a program then gaining
    acceptance will simply be a function of its functionality.

>	<mike
>--
>He was your reason for living				Mike Meyer
>So you once said					mwm@pa.dec.com
>Now your reason for living				decwrl!mwm
>Has left you half dead

					    -Matt

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