[868] in Cypherpunks
Re: Software infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Michael Diehl)
Fri Jun 4 20:47:54 1993
From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: hughes@soda.berkeley.edu (Eric Hughes)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 18:35:52 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9306040522.AA18339@soda.berkeley.edu> from "Eric Hughes" at Jun 3, 93 10:22:23 pm
According to Eric Hughes:
>>Itpuzzles mewhy weare contemplating writing our own comm package when so many
>>good ones are out there that can be made to serve our purposes.
>
> Reliability. Scripts do not easily handle error conditions that might
> result in lost mail. They're fine for a few, but they aren't for all.
Well, this is a problem with any nontrivial program. But a script has going
for it several very high-level constructs. As people use any software, the
author will undoubtably have to improve it. So, what is the difference if
he has to improve a script or a comm program?
>
> Integration. Remembering what to do next is a large hurdle.
That's why we have scripts in the first place! Scripts' main purpose is to
automate things. How is this different with a comm program? You still have to
remember how to use it....
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