More on fP 6.0 features

[Fairlight]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Laura Brody may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> 
> 	My point was that you can do it now, without waiting
> for fP Tech. If they get around to adding it - great. If
> not, it doesn't stop you from using it.

True enough.  It didn't seem like that was your point though.  I dunno, I
guess I should apologise.  5hrs sleep wasn't enough last night, methinks.

> developers are expected to use it. The processing language
> has some limits as to how many keywords it can have (unless
> Ken did something to expand this in the past few years -
> he's out at the A & P at the moment, so I can't ask him.)

A&P still exists?!  My God, I haven't seen one in...boy, like 26 years or
so?  They all closed up in Milwaukee (all of Wisconsin, AFAIK), and I've
never seen one down here.  Ah, Kelly just said they used to have them here
and they all closed as well.  Weird.

"...and the turkeys are at the A&P.  Look it up in the phonebook!  It's
under A!  And if it's not there, it's under P!"  --Frank Cross, "Scrooged"

(I -love- that movie!)

> If a function is expected to be used by very few people,
> it most likely _not_ be added to filePro. It is a question
> of priorities, programming resources and marketing value.

Yeah, I wonder how that Biometrics is working out for 'em.  Funny how
almost every developer I talk to say that the vendor should be focusing
on the core product instead of having wasted years on fPGI, and now this
Biometrics stuff.  Most people seem to just want improvements to the core
product, not a bunch of extra bell-and-whistle tack-ons that a few people
interested in glitz will go for, but which most people will readily pass
over.  And these projects take up those same programming resources and have
less marketing value based on the opinions of developers selling software
based almost entirely in fP.

But hey, what do the customers know?  They only help move more of the
product...

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