Subject: Re: New vote on SUAVE or Objective VHDL
From: John Michael Williams (jwill@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 15:23:21 PDT
Hi Peter.
My comment was meant to point out that the only "work"
the group seems to have been doing was writing
computer programs and arguing over which one was the
better.
But the group should have been writing a standards
document to help potential users of object-oriented
(constructs in) VHDL! Why not rename
the group, the "OO-VHDL Compiler Writing Club"?
Sorry to sound satirical, but what does it take?
I move that the vote be cancelled as irrelevent to
standards activity.
If you insist in a vote between two commercial
software projects, then at least let the voters
decide WHETHER these two software projects
should be occupying their time. Add an alternative,
"Neither of the above".
Not to say that the two programs are not of
themselves metitorious: It's just that holding
votes on them merely further prolongs the term of
the (abortion?).
--
John
jwill@pacbell.net
John Michael Williams
Peter J. Ashenden wrote:
>
> John Michael Williams wrote:
> >
> > I think there should be at least one more
> > alternative to the motion: Neither.
> >
> > Do we really need a computer program to write a
> > standards document?
>
> I'm sorry, I don't understand your comment. Are you asking whether we
> should find a computer program that will write a standard document for
> us (a major advance in AI!), or whether we should be in possession of
> some computer program before we proceed to write a standard? Perhaps
> you would like to rephrase your question.
>
> > Object-orientation is going out of style, and time's
> > a wasting.
>
> I don't think it's going out of style. More a matter of having been
> accepted into the mainstream, so that there's less noise being made
> about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PA
>
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