From: Sar Saloth (sarsaloth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2002-03-11 21:18:06
Hi all,
has anything decided Re: File formats?
On a different project, I need to make (a proposal for ) a communication
and control protocol to work on multiple products (all in the future). It
is for a current commercial code-base that does not currently have a
hardware interface specification. The software is being modified to handle
more and more pieces of hardware and the interface is quickly becoming
spaghetti code. Performance, extensibility, and simplicity are all
important (yea right!)
These are multi-channel systems so I don't know if it would get any
interest in this community. However, the protocol, if adopted, would be
public so experimenters would be able to write code to work with the
hardware and make hardware that would work with the code.
I wonder if such a thing already exists.
At 11:09 PM 2002-03-07 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Jim,
>
> > Is that a picture of you?
>
>Yeah, those pics and videos are me.
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> > It looks like you are left eye dominant? Is that true?
> > That would explain the artistic creative temperament.
>
>I have no idea if I am left eye dominant. I am one of the
>rare right brain poets who also is bent on engineering,
>although as you can see, I like to 'paint' with the tech.
>I still remember you commenting (as I smiled inside) when
>you noted the difference between Maxwell Cade left-brained
>logic, reason, and pure science vs Anna Wise on the right
>side with more talk of intuition and such. The left brain
>definitely has its purpose, but there is a lot of power in
>the right too if you give up the 'need' to know all of the
>answers. That is also where a lot of innovation is born.
>
> > Did you ever get Jim Peters code to compile on windows?
>
>Sorry Jim, I got completely lost in other projects but I do
>plan to proceed on windows very soon, hopefully I will try
>a bit tomorrow. BTW Jim I see a lot of value in doing what
>you say, as in just getting something working. I spent
>about 18 hours a day for a full year to do all of this ...
>
>http://java.sun.com/features/2000/06/jeniuses.html
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>All of it was done in Meissner style, plug in that soldering
>iron, fire up the compiler, put the coffee on and go wild.
>We did a LOT, earthquake monitor and weather and pollution
>monitoring, appliance control over the net, mobile robotics,
>remote monitoring and control, alarms sent over the net, etc.
>BUT the code was a MESS, it was NOT a solid foundation like
>Rob Sacks described. It was not all a waste of effort, as
>much was learned, but most of the code was simply not usable
>for a real system to spend a lot more time working on. Since
>then I have gone back to square one and started over. Yes I
>agree that something is better than just talk re software,
>but I've been in the software biz for about 13 years, and
>the MOST important part is analysis and design, this
>includes not one bit of programming. In fact, truth is, the
>programming is the easy part. Getting a good design, a model
>of the objects and functions and data etc is the ONLY way to
>make it flexible enough to change later on.
>
> -- Doug
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