What's over the horizon?

Martin Wirblat sql.mawi at t-link.de
Sat Apr 7 12:43:32 UTC 2007


tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> Wellllll..... I'd have to dispute that somewhat. My 600MHz RISC OS 
> machine (same cpu as many PDAs) really doesn't do to well with Morphic. 
> Now morphic is a fine idea in a lot of ways but substantial chunks of 
> the implementation simply blow chunks. Part of the problem is that old 
> issue of lack of doc leading to people abusing the classes and then that 
> bad code getting enthroned as an example to later unfortunates. Tweak 
> has some nice ideas too, but to be honest it's been driving us nuts a 
> lot of the time over in SophieLand. Debugging..... aargh!
> 

Tim,

do you think Tweak is harder to debug than Morphic and could you explain 
how or why it is so hard? I have not used Tweak myself yet because of 
the uncertainty that comes with its future (at least from my point of 
view) but I had high hopes on it.

Regards,
Martin



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