RE: Blackbox Oberon in the real world

From: [at]} <Tei>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:12:39 +0100

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At 11:10 11/02/03 +0100, Wijck, Bart van wrote:
>Hi Werner and Brett,
>
>It's true that there are some very nice solutions about (also see Helmut
>Zinn's email) which address at least some of the deficiencies of BlackBox or
>add nice features to it. To a certain extent you can also argue that elegant
>BlackBox + these extra subsystems + extensibility can be to some extent an
>alternative for the real world heavy weights like Delphi or VB, which are
>not without big problems either (overblown software, changes, bugs etc.) and
>contain many features which arguably are not all needed.
>Brett's conclusion seems on the one hand fair (yes, there are some pretty
>fundamental issues) but perhaps a little too absolute (see possibilities
>above). Or at least some things could be improved quite easily (see below).
[...]

Hello.

Whats the right thing to do visual coding for BB?

Maybe something similar to the "Class Wizard" of Visual C++ 6.0 but with
the correct relation "this is a chair" - "object chair" to enhance reusing
code and avoid generating a lot of similar class for no reason other to
have N class for N slighty different chairs. Maybe the key is reusing, to
add info in the code to help a Black Box "Class Wizard"-ish tool to reuse
class, not to use a "MFC-ish" group of objects. I dont know.

Whats about to had a similar tool to "Class Wizard" to Black Box and to
enhance BB syntax with metadata that help "Class Wizard"? ... Visual C++
6.0 use comments for metadata that is something really ugly-s-que total. A
right lang may need to use something with sense. I think Component Pascal
try to be a "right" lang.

Its the right thing the Visual C++ way of do things?


pd:

this is the RIGHT way to work with files:

open (file)
if isread
         a = read(file)
else
         write(a )
close (file)

thinks simple!

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