Interesting comments.

Post #51,614 by static 9/13/02 7:28:52 AM Reply	Interesting comments. We have an Indian programmer working on our code. I talk with him most days on ICQ. I had some concerns about his experience and capability, but perhaps my standards are very high. Amongst other things, we have an extensive API of our own for manipulating the application data and building our web-based pages. Apparantly he had never see this done before... :-/ Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #51,982 by wharris2 9/16/02 10:57:43 PM Reply	Wince we have an extensive API of our own for manipulating the application data and building our web-based pages. Apparantly he had never see this done before... :-/ Recipe for disaster, IMO, but then what do I know? (the only thing I know is how much I don't know. :=( :=) The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #52,003 by static 9/17/02 7:06:35 AM Reply	Which way? The use of our own API, or that he seemed not to have seen this before? Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #52,017 by wharris2 9/17/02 10:25:46 AM Reply	Re: Which way? The idea that the concept of an API would be foreign to anyone doing any sort of programming during the past ten or fifteen years. Home-built API's, or libraries, or whatever your terminology is - well, you want to avoid duplicating someone else's work, but there's frequently room for your own layers. Curses is a standard Unix terminal library, but I'm not sure I'd want to use the bare-bones library.
Post #52,143 by static 9/18/02 12:59:21 AM Reply	Yes, that's what I thought you meant. :-) I remember writing against the Zortech Display library - a text-mode interface for writing to the screen for DOS programs. I quickly added an extra layer to make it easier to work with (ah... abstraction). And in one project I added another layer to give me some rudimentary overlapping windows. :-) Wade "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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