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At 02:56 PM 2/15/2005 -0500, Wojtek Skulski wrote:
> I added a handful of new slides on HW and DLL interfacing to my
>presentation that is available at http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~skulski/
>The new slides start at slide 76. The examples were lifted from many HW
>interface modules that we now have in the lab. I hope the examples may
>help someone who is interfacing DLLs or hardware with BlackBox.
Congratulations! This is a superb demonstration of the simplicity and power of CP and Oberon. It's hard to imagine a clearer or more persuasive presentation to suck users into CP, and I mean that in the nicest way.
For what it's worth, here are a few of the aspects that I liked most:
1. The ability to start software almost anywhere during development and testing (pp 52-53). Unless I am missing something, this is an incredibly powerful paradigm, and it's as simple as it can be. This ought to greatly ease testing small pieces of large programs.
2. The automatic GUI builder. "GUI code does not even exist." (p. 74).
3. The ease of specifying public and private fields and methods in a record or object.
4. The ease of extending records and objects in client modules (without having to restructure anything, and without needless proliferation of type names). OK, this description is mostly from Wirth, but I still like it.
5. And finally, I wish I could say that Delphi has not crashed for me and that code has always worked as written, but alas I cannot. If your programs virtually never crashes, it doesn't get any better than that.
6. The DLL interfacing demonstration.
I suppose those points were out there somewhere waiting to be appreciated, but somehow I missed them in the noise. If anyone is teetering on the brink of a choice of language, by all means have a look at that presentation.
Sincerely,
Rex Couture, Ph. D.
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Campus Box 1169
Washington University in St. Louis
1 Brookings Dr.
St. Louis MO 63130
Voice: (314) 935-4194
Fax: (314) 935-7361
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