Hello Roger!

Oct 10 14:36 03, Roger Scudder wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 >>  >> Doesn't it support templates yet? ;)

 >>  RS>  Dude, it doesn't even support all of the addressing it should 
 >>  RS> yet.  Inherent functionality comes first, then the extra
doo-dads.  
 >>  RS> ;-)

 >> Hehe :-) But you can say one Iteration is done (if we're talking XP :))

 RS>  I think that is a good way to put it...  though, I'm not clear as to 
 RS> what consitiutes a iteration in XP.

I'm not very clear yet. In software engeering we are going to work with XP
and metrics this semester.

 >>  >> I've started  learned Russian in RUSSIAN_TUTOR :-)

 >>  RS>  Are there many Russian speaking people where you live?

 >> No, but I think it's a exciting langauge, and there are lots of 
 >> Russians here in Fidonet.

 RS> Are you making progress in this echo?  It seems like a rough way to 
 RS> go about it.

It's a very defficult langauge, so it's kinda evolution :-)

 >> Well Reiserfs is a Journalizing Filesystem which is very good for small 
 >> files.

 RS>  Do you know if people are actually using it to support .MSG bases?

Not actually not, but my hypotese says that it should be good.. But I do
anyway avoid *.MSG.

 >> And I'm running Squish, it's damn good :-)

 RS>  YEAH!!!  hehe...  I used it for about a year as part of a point 
 RS> setup.

Okay :-) It's just different than they modern tossers, they have alot in
common, but Squish do have somekind of qualities, they others thinks, it
wouldn't be nessersary for a tosser.. Like routing schedules, netmail zone
gating and so on.

 >>  RS>  Oh, yeah, I know...  Fido is mostly for us hard-code folks these 
 >>  RS> days.
 >> The most programmers in Fidonet, is Open Source programmers, but in 
 >> some way the Fidonet spirit is in that way.

 RS>  So tell me about the part of your Tic software that you want to 
 RS> write in C++.  Why do you think C++ would be a good choice?

It's written in C now, but I can't make of my mind if I shall use C++ for
some of it.. Because it's not my oppinion that C++ applications is working
far as good as C applications under Linux..

 >>  >> In someway I like Borland C++ too, maybe because I'm
forced to use 
 >>  >> it (They are only having that at my school).

 >>  RS>  Yeah, I can relate...  it's the only one they have at my 
 >>  RS> retirement home.  ;-)

 RS>  Seriously, though...  I used Turbo C++ for several years.  It was my 
 RS> first compiler.  I don't know very much about the current 
 RS> offerings... other than the free v5.5  which I have only used to work 
 RS> through exercises in a C++ book or two.

It's not Turbo C++, it's Borland C++ (Windows based).

Regards,
Bo

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