ddspell-m3 wrote:
>I really miss using INFORMATION. It was my first MVDB and it
>was so easy to use compared to the unforgiving Pick/D3.
I feel the same way about working with Universe and especially
Unidata. They're the most unforgiving MV environments in the market
with syntax and casing.
It's ridiculous that some commands need to be cased alternatively
between upper and lower, otherwise the systm simply doesn't process
it.
Look, Mr UniComputer: when I say NAME, Name, or name, _you_ know that
there is an item in the dict or voc with that ID, oops, @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and I
should not have to spell it out exactly for you each time - and
differently depending on where we are at the moment.
And also, Mr UniComputer, if I say LIKE ...foo... or [this] or
"[that]", you should know damned well what I'm talking about without
me having to tell you what flavor you are. There is little chance in
hell that I'm going to be looking for the literal "..." or "[z]".
The point is that computers were meant to serve us, not the other way
around. It's absolutely infuriating that the following conditions
exist:
1) We are all enslaved by rigid syntax that was defined 30 years ago.
2) Most people in this market seem to like it like that.
3) The current crop of MV engineers somehow think this is the way it
should be. Compare this to how the rest of the world is light years
ahead with speech recognition, bayesian-based learning algorithms, and
other methods that continue to divorce "syntax" from "function".
So that's just my opinion about U2 syntax anyway. There are many
other areas where I feel D3 is much more versatile and forgiving - and
there are things that are available in U2 that I wish we had in D3.
For the best of both worlds I've come to appreciate QM, Caché, and I
was quite impressed with my small exposure to Reality in this area as
well.
YMMV of course.
T
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