Which to me as the user was the elegance. I didn't know it was a mess under the covers as all of that was hidden from me. Other products (MQSI for instance) felt the other way around. Not only was the implementation almost certainly horrible but all of that horror was exposed to me as the end user.
Alfa Romeo's in the 90s are a good example of this, nice interface and for the first six months they are wonderful, MQSeries like. Then after then they start exposing the horror of their electrics directly to me and it becomes awful like MQSI. Steve 2008/6/3 Mike Glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steve, > > I was (incidentally) involved in porting MQSeries to a new Unix > platform back in the late '90s and if you'd seen any of the source > code then the last thing you would describe it as is "elegant"! In > fact, I was quite shocked at what a complex mess it all was. > > That said, sometimes a messy implementation can be hidden by a simple > interface... > > -Mike Glendinning. > > --- In [email protected], "Steve Jones" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Cheap, Simple (very simple) and connects anything to anywhere. Does >> clustering, load-balancing, failover and the config is incredibly >> simple. >> >> Despite finding a fundamental bug in the AIX implementation (to do >> with Java and shared memory numbers) I've never found a piece of >> software that took less time to design and worked more effectively > in >> every situation. Other systems are more feature rich and have more >> bells, but if you want to connect a bunch of mainframes, AS400s, > Unix, >> Windows and Linux boxes... lob in the MA0C support pack and you've > got >> a decent pub/sub broker as well. >> >> One fundamental bug is pretty good in my experience of software >> products, and to be fair it was fixed within a few days and that was >> because we were pushing the boundaries slightly. >> >> MQSI however.... >> >> Steve >> >> >> 2008/6/2 Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > --- In [email protected], "Steve > Jones" >> > <jones.steveg@> wrote: >> >>> >> >> Yup... in the same way that the Edsel or Delorian did ;) >> >> >> >> MQSeries.... now THAT is software elegance. >> > >> > MQSeries? Blech. >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> > >> > >
