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Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:22:04 PST8
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Pushing ahead

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Sheridan,

I note your comments about the GUI editor for Python and the
"little" things that need to but didn't get done to keep in
operational. I would say let's go with VIM, understand its
internals in some detail, and then start the modifications.

For those who still believe that with C you can do anything,
they can pursue a parallel C implementation. We might as
well settle that argument.

I would suggest that we start with VIM and Python, for those
who would like a Python with a GUI interface. It really makes
no functional difference in terms of implementation. We start
with an GUI editor. We add colorized syntax checking. We
add semantic analysis. We add code generation for
interpretive and compiled output. We integrate it with a data
respository/directory based on a DBMS.

Along the way as more of this fits into our comfort zones we
will gain expertise and insight in those process improvements
which lead to greater productivity. We should not take our
eye off this goal: increased productivity. We want to do more
with less. Particularly where this "less" fits within our people
resources.

It's not a matter of which language is better than another,
which editor, which compiler, or which anything. It is a matter
of making choices in any of these which maximize
productivity. That ultimately determines how much anyone at
a given skill level can achieve in a finite amount of time. The
same holds true for any group.

All my choices in what I propose use the criteria for increased
productivity absent of any other bias. I think that the more
we focus on increasing productivity, the more we understand
what prevents it, the more we remove or reduce these
barriers, the more productive we will become.

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