Regards, Craig
At 06:43 PM 6/7/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 7 Jun 2003 at 17:31, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
> At 03:58 PM 6/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On 7 Jun 2003 at 0:35, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > > > > > It is no different with Word, Excel or any other end-user application. > > > >Really, would you *stop* using these completely invalid comparisons > >to programs that have file formats that are several orders of > >magnitude less complex? > > Come on, man. You're talking nonsense here. Finale isn't orders of > magnitude more complex than Word. Quite the reverse.
I didn't say *Finale* was orders of magnitude more complex. I said the Finale *file format* is more complex.
> Before lecturing me, educate yourself on the file system that Microsoft > implemented in the early 1990s as the architectural foundation for storing > files from all of their complex Office applications. It is the foundation > for auto save, incremental save, versioning, and backwards compatibility.
Pointers.
It uses pointers.
Big frigging deal.
Finale files are a database, with parent and child records (frames are parents, notes are children of the frame, etc.). This is a far, far more complicated structure than Word.
Excel is more complicated, though, as it does something much more complicated.
But it's not at all as complex as a Finale file.
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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