[openbeos] Re: scheduler/reminder
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:17:45 +0100 BST
> > Myself and Michael are still discusing the GUI stuff offlist ;-)
>
> Share with us! :-)
Not a lot of progess really, we both recognise we both have reasonable
arguments (but mine are more reasonable :-))
> > > I was talking about GENERAL apps! Do you consider good a OBOS
> > > program
> > > that uses:
> > > "ls -l | grep xxxx"
> > > to find some files via a criteria, or use PERL regular
> > > expressions
> > > support, etc.
> >
> > Personally, I wouldn't see any problems with that - if it's a
> > reasonable solution to the problem.
>
> Don't make that a habit! It's a poor solution.
[snip]
> :-) You might say that's me! :-)
> You are right Simon, a *smart* developer would write a script in
> about
> an hour saving 3 months for work. [Don't forget, I was talking about
> GUI
> apps!]
> A *good* developer would realize that scripting with CLI apps is
> wrong
> and use those 3 months to do it's product competitive.
> You think I'm wrong? Look at the percentage of GUI apps using
> scripting
> with CLI apps versus the ones that use modules!
You're correct for most apps, and certainly for large apps.
But some are fine with CLI - I can't see how TrackerGrep would be
improved my using modules instead of CLI.
Simon
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