Re: Properly encoding "Project Gutenburg 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary".
On Sep 24, 2:09 pm, Ed Kirwan <IAmFrac...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
On Sep 21, 8:10 pm, "John W. Kennedy" <jwke...@attglobal.net> wrote:
snipski
I would estimate that any new system offering a significant
improvement on existing tools should take about ten man-years to do from
scratch.
snip
Every journey starts with but a footstep. It may take 10 man years to
complete, but if I don't start on my own, I'll never know.
I like that, because I've been there: and I eventually found a stall selling
big, "I've failed," tee-shirts, just like John W. said I would. I bought
myself a nice, bright green one. (See, "Violentia," below.)
Almost every step towards this particular failure, however, was rewarding,
and I carry both lessons and lesions with me still (if only all failures
yielded such insights). I've often thought that IF is the perfect
environment in which to cuts ones OO-teeth (not that you are, Daniel)
because you can get by with a little and add sophistication until the cows
come home. In short, it's so damn extensible. It's worth doing as a
code-structuring exercise alone, just don't ever expect to see a
finish-line.
No project or product is finished until its end-of-lifed. And at that
point, its only finished in the sense of its mortality. :-) I'm glad
someone else sees my point of view on this.
FWIW, you're going to meet the Visitor. I'm sure you've met him before, but
in IF, he's the biggest, meanest bruiser you've ever seen. And he's in a
bad mood.
Do you mean the Visitor pattern? Or is this some reference to
something I don't yet know?
Murderously bad ...
*gulp* :-)
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Thanks,
Daniel.