| Re: iTools split personality (was Re: Subclassing from IDLitTool ??) [message #40949 is a reply to message #40801] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 13:55  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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JD Smith writes:
> New iTools user: "Who is this straight-talking IDL wizard Fanning?
> Let's see what other good things he has to say about iTools... "
> [.... google groups searching, Fanning+iTools ....]
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> "I have heard of people outside of RSI writing programs with iTools,
> but they have spent the past six months writing their own
> documentation so they can figure it out."
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> "Is anyone actually doing useful work with iTools? I don't
> personally know anyone who uses them. (Or at least has confided that
> fact to me.)"
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> "Of course, the price of this feature is an enormous increase in
> complexity, which I think makes iTools so complicated no one outside
> of RSI can use it. (Which, I have been thinking lately, must really
> be the Plan. :-)"
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> "Otherwise the one or two people who use those iTools (according to
> my recent informal survey) would be *extremely* upset. :^)"
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> Truth in advertising activists, alert ;).
You know, RSI has been very, very good to me over the years.
David Stern gave me the opportunity to create the best job
I ever had. I still appreciate it. It changed my life.
But, I have one (well, at *least* one) fundamental flaw as a
person: I'm not very good at dissembling. :-(
It's gotten me into all kinds of hot water, at RSI and elsewhere.
Well, nobody gets to be my age without some regrets, I guess. And
I could have been more subtle, or I could have just shut the hell
up a couple of times, and I would have been better off for it.
And I didn't, I'm sorry to say.
But here is the thing. That quote is dead-on accurate. (The
first version I saw was a flight of the publicist's fantasy.)
I wrote it pretty darn sure it would be used for publicity.
I *thought* about it for a LONG time. I'm ashamed of any
number of things in my life. But I am not ashamed of that
quote. I'll stand by it no matter what else I think or
say about iTools. At the moment I said it, I believed it.
I'd like to think you could count on that.
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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