Re: Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Craddock
There you go thinking logically again Pat... On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:56:05 -0500, William H. Blair > wrote: > > >... The problem for us > >was that we could not invoke the binder API as we assumed we > >would be able to, and the reason h

Re: Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-24 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:56:05 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: >... The problem for us >was that we could not invoke the binder API as we assumed we >would be able to, and the reason had to do with restrictions >that originate in LE. For our application, that was a pretty >clear-cut issue ... "Y

Re: Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-24 Thread William H. Blair
Paul Gilmartin asks: > In what language is the binder written? As far as I know, PL/X. But the binder itself is not actually the problem. It's the C/C++ / LE-dependent routines that the binder [API] invokes; they are the cause of the entanglements that the binder [API] suffers from, apparently. A

Re: Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:00:22 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: > > >Now, granted, the binder could be rewritten in another >language that did not require LE, such as (dare I say >it?!) Assembler. That, along with a better functional >interface, could make it truly useful, even amazing. > In what langu

Re: Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-23 Thread William H. Blair
Bill Klein reminds us: > ... but I *do* repeat that unless/until the SHARE > requirement process is "tried" for such things, it > seems wrong to me to assume that it will NEVER work. No "assumptions" are involved. A higher authority has already been appealed to. IBM STL was, itself, at one point

Fw: Fw: Binder API...broke or working as designed

2009-08-22 Thread Bill Klein
"Chris Craddock" wrote in message news:... > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bill Klein wrote: > > Bill K... this is a can of worms best left unopened. Suffice to say Bill > Blair's commentary is not actually a rant at all, but is based entirely on > his own (and my own) direct personal exper