Constructive criticism

[Maneesh Yadav]

Jim, I think you need to provide clearer examples.
I really don't see much here except that if you use the word class for
metamodel and write all data out in binary it's not particularly useful or
different.  For example you "universal" text import export model example
is
just the binary representation of Hello World...I really don't see how
writing a string down in binary makes it possible to mix languages and do
visual programming.  What I think you need to do is provide a clear
exmaple of a program that shows how much better it is to do it in prisim
than to do it in a traditional manner.  The examples that I see do not
provide such evidence at all. 

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, James Little wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Maneesh Yadav wrote:
> 
> > Jim...forgive my ignorance but I really don't see how your prisim stuff is
> > any different than a C++ class except you've bothered to write out the
> > members in binary instead of using time saving Cish constructs...
> 
> Maneesh,
> 
> I'm not sure how you got that impression.  Maybe because the metamodels
> I've published thus far are basic building blocks such as Integer,
> Character, and String?  If so, then I understand, but your impression is
> mistaken.
> 
> Prism is a mechanism for representing programs in a common format that is
> easier to manipulate than ASCII.  Possible benefits include visual
> representation of programs and (the holy grail) programs constructed from
> multiple languages.
> 
> I understand that the documentation currently available on the web site
> may be hard to understand.  If something is confusing, please ask...
> that's the only way I'll improve.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Prism is at http://www.teleport.com/~sphere
> 
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