Re: Lake

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

steve donovan wrote:
[snip]
> Some problems led themselves to declarative solutions, some don't,
> it's good to be able to choose the mode of solution. (It is also
> partly a 'cognitive style' thing.)
Yes, definitely!
> It isn't at all too late in the development process. Here's a quote:
>
> [[
> Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't
> tried either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After
> getting myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did
> something simple with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed.
> And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen,
> most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base.
> The rest, sadly, is history.
>      - Stu Feldman, author of make
> ]]
:-)
It's amazing how many times the author of something doesn't foresee how 
far his/her creature will go! Sort of Dr.Frankenstein, but in a positive 
perspective :-))

-- Lorenzo