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Hi Scott
Yeah, I did make a bit of a categorical statement, didn't I? It came out
of hearing statements in what seems to be a very polar environment -
perhaps colored by one's own situation. We use new stuff, I convert to
free-form as it makes sense and doesn't take too much time and effort.
And there is a mix of techniques sometimes - subprocedures and
subroutines co-exist. I'll replace the *ENTRY PLIST with prototypes,
again, if it doesn't take too long - I have a tool for doing it from
Craig Rutledge. It's an as-I-touch-it kind of thing.
And your point is well-taken - and I might think that things are all
over that spectrum, from the "use nothing old" to "use nothing new" poles.
There may also be a difference between learning to use a callp or eval
vs learning a whole new technological technique, such as the things you
offer, like your FTP API, HTTP API, expat, and all the rest. Those don't
necessarily, seems to me, use ground=breaking code techniques as far as
opcodes and the like are concerned. They call things in APIs. That's
another gross generalization, I hope I'm not drawing erroneous
conclusions. WHAT you do is more important, perhaps, than HOW you do it
- after a while there is a degree of stasis in the HOW.
OK - back to work - enough thinking!
Vern
On 9/28/2010 10:30 AM, Scott Klement wrote:
Hi Vern,
Nothing wrong with it - some think tried and true techniques should
never be used, just because they aren't their hottest new thing.
Frankly, that's not a common problem in the RPG community.
A much more common problem is to use old, clumsy, outdated techniques
just because folks are used to them. RPG programmers almost always hang
on to outdated techniques long after better ones arrive, just because
"we've always done it that way."
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