On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:22:34 -0400, Brian France wrote: >john gilmore wrote: >> Brian Peterson wrote: >> >> <begin quotation> >> It seems to me that one of the most significant results of this common >> installation tool initiative is actually not the tool itself. Rather, in my >> opinion, it is the fact that all of the "tribes" within the CA family now >> have ONE install methodology - one that is common across all products. >> <end quotation> >> >> This notion is hard, indeed all but impossible to disagree with in general. >> That said, we have SMP/E in hand; and we are all familiar with it, warts and >> all. Do we need another quite ordinary installation/maintenance tool? I >> think not. >> > This is my thinking exactly. We have SMP/e, why do I need a product >that basically does that under the covers. >> >> I should feel different about it if it were radically innovative; it is not. >> Likewise, in some of John Gilmore's harangues it appears that he believes that we have Assembler with its macro processor, why do we need another "product that basically does that under the covers." (Unless, of course, it's PL/I.)
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