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At 18:12 22/06/98 -0500, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >I'm am pleased to announce the initial availability of the beta version >of PHyLIS: Personal HyTime Link Information System from >"http://www.phylis.com". This is marvellous news. > >NOTE: I realize that many of the readers of this group cannot or will not >use anything other than Java. I sympathize. I would very much like to I think that for most of us it is 'cannot' - in some sense of the word. There is - of course - no suggestion on XML-DEV that any language is 'inferior' to any other. (My 'cannot' relates primarily to portability - my community uses a variety of beasts such as SGs, SUNs, Macs, etc. and we cannot require or expect them to port languages to them just to run our apps.) >create a Java version of PHyLIS, but that is beyond the limit of my >abilities and resources as the moment. I chose VB largely because it was >the easiest way for me to get the thing written, given my limited >programming abilities and lack of time to absorb the Java learning curve. >I also chose it because it is very accessible to a large number of people >who may be fairly characterized as "casual programmers". And of course, >there's always the hope that maybe I might get Microsoft's attention.... The main thing - for people like me who know nothing about VB - is that it is easily distributable. IOW, can I download it and install it on (say) W95 without having to download/buy lots of other stuff. [For example, if I want to run SP on my machine I can download an executable without having to get a C++ compiler. OTOH if I want to *develop* an application that links to SP I need a C++ compiler. This was not trivial when I first wanted to do it.] So - and this shows my ignorance of VB: - if I want to extend it/play_with_it, do I have to buy a VB interpreter/compiler? > >Among the many things it demonstrates are: [... wonderful things snipped ...] If you can get help - as you note - to make the distribution as easy as possible then we have little excuse for not finding out how HyTime works :-) P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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