On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>wrote:
On Jul 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I love that scenario :) This is great that powerful tools let us imagine and build solutions that would not be possible before. Power to imaginationâ¦
And it is an example for a building block that helps to build things. Things that are *impossible* without it.
Another way to view Fuel is that of a scientific experiment: We empirically study the existing (ImageSegment). Without pre-concived notions to replace it! (We actually thought ImageSegments would turn out to be the greatest thing ever and just needed some documentation/more understandable implementation).
Indeed. I remember my first months in Douai for my PhD making drawings to understand the IS primitives :) And then Martin arrived hahaha.
-> You study the existing -> You claim that you can do better -> You do better.
And then the next step is *extremeley* importnat:
-> You prove that it is better for real by *replacing* ALL the existing subsystems that do the same.
That last part is very essential: in the end, you often see that it is actually not that easy.
That's a real good point. In Spanish I would say "Los pingos se ven en la cancha"
So *replacing* is important. The other thing important is to realize that it enables things that are impossible without.
+1 Fuel is getting more and more users. Even in BioInformatics: http://biosmalltalk.blogspot.fr/2012/07/custom-serialization-of-big-dna-or.h... http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Software-using-Fuel Cheers, -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com