Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!chimelis From: chimelis@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Chris Chimelis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Standardization Message-ID: <4183@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 20 Oct 88 07:29:10 GMT References: <1304@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <4166@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <8XLHINy00VsfM0Z1FF@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: chimelis@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Chris Chimelis) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 25 In article <8XLHINy00VsfM0Z1FF@andrew.cmu.edu> mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: >> I disagree. I think that even if we propose a "soft standard" or a verbal >> standard, that it >> would severly limit software authors. Sure, it may reduce software size, >> costs, etc, but it > >somewhere where I wouldn't have to do the work to create the stuff and I >wouldn't have to link in a copy of it with every program I write. > You could put out a 'generic file requester' and other generic gadgets, but I wouldn't FORCE programmers to conform to a standard. Instead of standard- isation, I would suggest introducing a generic system of tools that, if the programmer was 'too lazy', he could link to his/her programmes. This would allow flexibilty for programmers motivated to write extended requesters, but a mechanism to fall back upon if they are 'lazy'. I DO, however, support a global cut/paste/edit system that could exist and function under all software. This would greatly increase the flexibility of the Amiga Workbench OS Interface. Don't take this as a flame. I'm just expressing my views as a creative programmer, an artist, and an individual. Chris Chimelis chimelis@refuge.colorado.edu Internet ncar!boulder!refuge!chimelis UUCP chimelis%boulder@colorado.bitnet Bitnet