OpenEuphoria

Re: Food For Thought

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jul 03, 2001
• 738 views

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 17:33, euman at bellsouth.net wrote:

> >I drive a car. It's nice to be able to do that without first taking
> >courses in thermodynamics,  fluid mechanics, and metallurgy.
> >Maybe if I did know all those things, and invested a lot of time
> >and money in it, my car would run faster - maybe not.
> >Much easier to just go buy a faster car.

> Your analogy of buying a car while obvious a good bit
> of advice has not much to do with API coding.

OK, change the word 'car' to Visual C++.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I have to admit that at least 
they provide a reasonably comfortable ride. Everywhere 
the Euphoria folks want to go, they first have to build a road.

> Just last week someone asked how to make RichEdit
> accept files larger than 65k and I replied with
> EM_EXLIMITTEXT which can be found in the SDK.
>
> Sure the person that needed this info didnt look before
> he/she asked the question. Am I to assume that to drive the
> car you mentioned earlier doesnt require we take a road test
> first or learn how to start the engine?

Since I have already passed the driving test, and all engines 
start the same way, yes - I expect to be able to drive out of 
the dealership without any problem except making the payments.

> True, knowing the engine and metalurgy isnt/shouldnt be
> required to drive the car but isnt that the same as MS
> doing the work and making the DLL's that we use to API program?
>
> After all, we have the keys to this car in their SDK all
> we have to do now is turn the key to start the engine........

Sure, right after we learn to drilli for oil, and figure out how to refine 
it, based on some instructions written in Swahili, we'll be ready to ride.

> NEXT!

Nope.
You haven't convinced me.

Regards,
Irv