Paul McNett wrote:

> Carl Karsten wrote:

>

>> I thought you guys might have thoughts....

>

>

> Many, many thoughts. Much laziness.

>

"we are much too lazy and impatient for that! Far better to stand on the

shoulders of giants with a large pot of glue and to use what has already

been written by other, (much) smarter people."

Carl Karsten wrote:

> Paul McNett wrote:

>

>> Carl Karsten wrote:

>>

>>> I thought you guys might have thoughts....

>>

>> Many, many thoughts. Much laziness.

>

> "we are much too lazy and impatient for that! Far better to stand on the

> shoulders of giants with a large pot of glue and to use what has already

> been written by other, (much) smarter people."

...which is basically the approach we took with Dabo, which stands on

the shoulders of Python, wxPython, ReportLab, MySQL, PostgreSQL,

Firebird, etc... I even used the "glue" analogy to describe the intent

of Dabo somewhere IIRC...

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