Since I changed the subject line, I felt the entire message below needed to be left intact. But you didn't answer my question (and Thomas' too in another response). QUESTION: Why Not Archetypes? The physicians on this list may be the pilots of this aircraft, but the folks we need to recruit to get it in the air are still out there waiting for useful applications and tools. You are all a very unique subset of two worlds colliding. <s> "John S. Gage" wrote: > > >Why not? I would think that there is a significantly larger > >subset of physicians that would contribute domain knowledge to > >archetypes than ever will learn MUMPS, Java, Eiffel, Python etc. > > Well, that's where Yves, Microsoft and Visual Basic come in. Good old Mr. > Gates thinks that he can produce a language, Visual Basic, that is arguably > a programming language, that members of the domain, be they diabetologists > or iron workers, can use to do useful work in their domain. That was the > whole point of my making the subject of my first posting, "What is Visual > Basic?" > > I would hate to believe that Mr. Gates has a more humble view of the place > of programming languages than the members of this group, but here is Yves' > posting: > > >As a heavy user of VBA, I would like to add my salt to these comments. Read > >below. > > > >-Yves > > > >I think it's a false impression to start by the programming language in the > >first place. Put a framework in place that allows imperative programming of > >the world around the little program of interest... > > > >But to be more constructive, I think that Java could be a pretty good > >candidate both as a framework and as a language. > > The interesting thing about that is that I didn't write it. > > John -- Tim Cook, President - FreePM,Inc. http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 ONLINE DEMO: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM
