Malcolm,
On 2004 Jul 26 , at 20.05, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> [currently aghast (again) at the amount of duplicated code in ESP]
>
> Told you. It was in my very long critique sent to Grant. It was
> so long, I think Grant binned it.
Schadenfreude is a vice, you know, Malcolm!
I confess that the ESP mess has probably been a contributory factor in
my ermm... slight evasiveness in the face of your various ESP requests
in the past.
> Given time, my first move would be to split the applications, and diff
> amongst the internal code, then against KAPLIBS, and then put the
> unique
> code into a library.
That sounds like a good plan.
Oh, it's such a mess. It's not even the twisted mess that ECHOMOP is,
whose tortured metal, blood on the floor, and gouges in the walls have
a certain guilty fascination to them (should I ever chance to meet a
medium or other psychic sensitive, I think I'll brandish a USB drive
with the ECHOMOP source code at them, and see if they flinch and burst
into tears).
ESP, on the other hand, is just an augean pile of, of, of duplicated
code.
I thought I'd got ESP mostly in on Sunday, but now it won't link,
because now agi_link_adam says that sgs_link_adam and pgp_link_adam
aren't there (though sgs and pgp are installed (am I out of date with
AGI/SGS/PGPlot changes?)). Sigh -- I had a sneaking hope I might be
shot of all this by today, too.
Probably enough for today,
Norman
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