on 18/2/00 3:41 AM, Alain Farmer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Anthony: I'm not sure to which diagram you are referring. Please send me a >> copy. I don't have any file called "NuParser.png" around here. And the mail >> archive search is down. >> > http://ufp.uqam.ca/opencard/graphics/NuParser.png > >> Adrian: I'll send you a copy when I can (I've moved again and am just >> starting to reorganize). >> > Alain: Don't bother. Use the above URL instead. > Adrian: Ahh, I knew I must have found it somewhere on the server. :) Thanks Alain. >> Adrian: Has documentation relating to NuParser been uploaded to the UFP >> server yet? >> >> Anthony: No. NuParser is not done yet, and has not been documented yet. It >> has online help, the incomplete version of which has been pasted to the end >> of this message. >> > Alain: NuParser has its own background in our web-stack (CGI). Click on > "FC-application" on the HomeStack page, then click on "interpreter" in the > table of contents. > Adrian: Excellent. > Alain: Our application and collaboration go by the name FreeCard. Our > scripting language is called FreeScript. So how about FreeParser ? > Adrian: Good suggestion. We should clearly identify the relation to this project in all our works where possible. > Alain: Please keep me informed. I am now confident that the documentation of > FreeCard will be the first tangible product of our collaboration. As it should > be, no doubt. The HyperTalk docs that I am currently finishing off will amount > to a detailed specification of FreeScript 1.x, for example. > Adrian: Excellent work. I agree that the docs should be our first tangible product. I will ensure that you are up to date with my progress. > Alain: I believe that this is unfortunate. We are an open source > collaboration. People will be viewing our source with the intention of > understanding it and contributing to it. Hence, we should avoid hacks like the > above, or document them profusely, so that we won't end up with only ONE > programmer that can do anything with our source code. > Adrian: Yes, but at the same time FreeCard must be fast. Comments are the solution to this problem. One on every line if need be. :) >> I would rather invest more time in learning and achieve something useful at >> the same time than less time learning without making useful progress. >> > Alain: I hear what you are saying, Adrian, but producing something useful has > its own imperatives, particularly if you have to make it hyper-user-friendly > for those less-experienced folks and/or you have a lot of content. The time > you dedicate to these production details, you are not using to test new ideas. > Adrian: That would be the reason why I have so many unfinished projects... :) Adrian Sutton ************************************************************** Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 3714 4649 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owe's you nothing - it was here first. -- Mark Twain. **************************************************************
