From: Dave (dfisher_at_pophost.com)
Date: 2002-03-02 07:41:00
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:49:40 +0000, Jim Peters wrote:
>Anyway, as you say, there is no need for a war on this. If someone
>can write good usable code in a pure OO style using C++, then no
>problems, we'll use it.
This is the approach I used with the stuff I was working on. I did not go down
to the sensor level, though, as Doug and John are discussing, but created an
abstract BioDevice class instead which was then inherited by more specific
sub-classes that would specifically define the device itself (where it received
its data--serial/USB/etc., specific packet stream parsing, etc.). Now that I
am reading the data from the device, I am working on the parse methods which
splits that data off into separate channels. But I like the idea of sensor
objects that Doug and John are discussing. It ties it a bit closer to the real
world. I was using a more generic data stream object in my work.
>Look at the pyramid in my .sig (or on my web-site). This is the way
>forwards for me, building from the ground up. (There may also be
>other significant aspects behind my choice of this symbol that I
>haven't understood yet). Dreaming the solution is a skill I have, but
>I really need to stay concrete all the way if I am going to be of real
>use to this project.
I appreciate this more than you know. I, too, am a dreamer. Ok, perhaps in
more ways than one. :) I feel that what I do, what I need to do, is to somehow
bring this vision that has drawn me in down to the ground and make it real.
It's taken me a long time to get to the point where I felt ready to concretize
it and be able to put my skills and background to work on it. That's why I
finally came out of the "wood work," because I knew there were others like you
working here toward that end, and I felt that I knew enough to be helpful (or
at least dangerous ;-). I think this group will help ground me, and by working
together, we will make this all "real."
Dave.
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