Re: Locking support

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On , September 4, 2001 at 20:57:23 (GMT), address@hidden wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Locking support
>
> What are talking about?  How many OO languages are familiar with?
> I'll let you figure out where you have over-generalized here.

I've been intimately familair with Smalltalk, the father of all OO
languages, since about 1982 or so, and I have been aware of it and OO
concepts and their importance in computer science since about 1977.

The concepts are pretty obvious here.  What's perhaps confusing to some
is the mixing of OO programming in environments traditionally tailored
to procedural programming languages.

Of course I can't make excuses for half-baked ideas that try to pass
themselves off as OO.....

> PVCS.  And yes I am quite aware there is a command line version.

I guess you should be more accurate about the things you claim then....

>  My
> company has chosen not to spring for that.

Oh well....  You create the circumstances you must live with.....

> Yes.  It is not.  I don't remember ever saying I was looking for a new
> tool.  We are quite happy with CVS, despite the fact that it bugs you so
> that we are "mis-using" it.

Seems at least some people intimately involved with your work don't
think CVS is right for you......

> : Finally are you really sure I'm the only person who finds concurrent
> : development to be an important aspect of any medium to large project?
> : I'd venture to say that *ALL* of the major users of CVS use it primarily
> : for its ability to support concurrent (parallel) development in
> : traditional source-code projects.  The *BSD projects leap instantly to
> : mind, but there are many other very large projects, both public and
> : private, using CVS primarily because of this ability.  To all of these
> : projects the client/server ability is still only secondary.
> 
> I never said that...Thus the rest of the above paragraph is pretty
> much irrelevant.

Excuse me?  Most of your silly jabs are pretty, well, silly.

However this cannot go unchallenged.  Yes, you certainly did say that
you though I was the only person who found concurrent development to be
an important aspect of a large project!

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