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To: JC Jaros who wrote (27309)	2/6/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"..I'm not a programmer but a musician" Well JC, that certainly explains a lot of things .. :^) btw - do you have anything to do with this? jaroscustomguitars.com

To: JC Jaros who wrote (27309)	2/7/2000 1:08:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I guess that's why you knew about the MiniMoog?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (27309)	2/7/2000 12:33:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 64865

The best programmers make even better use of components than the copiers. The "hacking" in Neil's characterization came in thing like taking a component defined for one purpose, copying it, and editing it a bit to suit some other purpose compared to deciding upfront what that new component should look like. When people do this sort of thing in OO environments, one can get the most abysmal mess with dozens of variants, unclearly differentiated, where one well designed component would have done the job. The issue of approaching with a fresh slate doesn't have anything to do with an empty editor. On the contrary, any programmer worth his or her salt builds up supporting frameworks and tools to make doing the simple stuff easier. The fresh look comes from not simply looking at a set of requirements, deciding prematurely that it is a lot like something else, copying the something else, and then trying to beat it into shape for the new requirements. It comes instead from deciding up front what should really be there.