CompuServe Messages

Jason, What, you mean someone else bought the same JUNK ! I can empathize with your problem, it's driven me to produce my own work arrounds also… Probably we should all get together and market our routines as GENERIC COGO for the user who wants to get something done with AutoCAD……and not age 20 years in the process……… But as far as Kelvinating code……there are good reasons to do it… Code compaction, and a bit more speed….not to mention that it may keep those few hackers from messing with a necessarily complex, and possibly fragile set of relationships that would be almost impossible to support… As there are always others that think they KNOW better than the programmers, whatever the simlicity and ease of operation…….. But, the poor compiled, and sometimes useless code gave me the incentive to learn Lisp, and create user specific solutions to a process that a general program can never hope to solve…….so I'm not about to yell TOO MUCH ! But I am convinced that lisp programming is not a casual undertaking, and the existance of complex source code may be more of a nuisance in the long run…….it usually takes as long to figure out what has been done, as it does to write it yourself………and you're still stuck with messing with their code in the future…….esentially someone else's solutions and thinking……… However, I'm sure what we're all looking for is a good working product that automates some drudgey tasks……letting machines do what they do best, and hopefully lets me go home at 5 feeling like less of a machine, and more of a person………<grin> rlh