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On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin, Marc wrote:
> > Could please someone from the Commercial Aisle comment on this?
> > Which part is the biggest hindrance: the language, the framework,
> > lack of "goodies", look-and-feel, or the documentation?
>
> I think the language is fine, the documentation is "okay", but
> the framework is rather bizarre (I've been using Oberon/F and
> Blackbox for over 10 years, but there are aspects of the
> framework that still are beyond my comprehension!).
Could you please elaborate? Bizzare in what sense? Bizzare or
simply difficult, as "beyond my comprehension" would suggest?
I am asking for a more specific definition of the problem.
The word "bizzare" is too nebulous to lead towards a solution.
We need some more focus to understand the core of the problem.
My approach would be: if "bizzare" then define "in what sense bizzare"
and try to make it more straightforward. However, if simply "difficult",
then fix the documentation and provide more examples. Hence, the
distinction is important to make.
> I also
> would like to have more flexibility in the "look & feel"
> area, so that my applications look more like I think they
> should look like.
This point keeps coming back.
> of you who are interested, my issues with GPCP were that
> the users need to have .NET installed on their computer,
> the startup of my .NET apps took a long time (8 seconds
> on my old 1Ghz computer), the compile/link/make process
> seemed rather old-fashioned (back to command-line compilers),
> the result of SYSTEM.ADR() is not guaranteed to be a
> constant during your code's execution, and linking to existing
> Fortran DLLs is not supported.
Important point: keep backward compatibility and support for
legacy DLLs. Something that .NET probably would be happy
not to do. Was this a limitation of the GPCP or the .NET
in general?
> Plus when I was porting
> code over for testing I was finding a new compiler bug
> almost every day -- not very encouraging, although I
> suspect that all of those bugs are now fixed (since
> I reported them all)
Another important point: try to keep the stability.
This conflicts with moving forward, esp. if the leap is
as large as goint to the new operating environment.
Is it at all possible to do both, move to .NET and keep
supporting legacy DLLs?
W
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