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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kicking, dropping etc (was some ghastly mac thing)
Summary: Nice.  How about a demand-driven variant, too?
Message-ID: <968@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 02:44:35 GMT
References: <1665@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1665@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) writes:
...
> Make a new type of workbench object :  a factory.
>  Factories contaoin (at least ) 3 types of objecxts:
>      conveyor belts, loading bays, holding bins.
...
>    Needless to say, factories can be shown as Icons, or expanded.

This analogy is cute.  Very visual.  I expect a naive user could learn
to build such factories without too much trouble.  Of course, I'd like
to see several example factories before I'm really convinced.  It might
be useful to take a few existing unix shell scripts and see if you can
express everything they do with this model.  Things like string
handling and conditionals need to be worked out.

There is one thing I'd like to see added:  demand driven factories.
You've suggested a sort of supply-side system.  I'd like to be able to
"pull" somthing out of a factory sometimes.  Make is a good example:
you want to pull the latest executable for some program out of the
factory.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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