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Re: w32feature()

• Posted by gshingles <gshingles at gmai??com> Jun 05, 2008
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ken mortenson wrote:
> In database design this principle of avoiding redundancy is normalization.
> 
> This is something I've always done long before I'd ever heard of it, which
> probably explains why I'm such a stinker about this.
> 
> Please Gary, know that I understand what you are saying and my thoughts are
> just my opinion.  I hope I've explained clearly why I hold this opinion.

Absolutely. There is always a spectrum of opinions about anything 

My initial post is more symptomatic of win32lib's state in general, it is a
behemoth, totally mind-twisting internal code, there seems to be no overall
structure to its API, but I love it, it seems to run very efficiently and works
as you expect 99% of the time.

PS I know of one Oracle developer who told me his team routinely duplicates
entire records in the key name, the theory being redundancy is a Good Thing where
resources allow it. Natural biological systems seem to agree.

I get your point but, in general, do we want to put the complextity in the API
or on to the programmer?  win32lib seems to favour the former, but doesn't, but
does, in a way...

Gary