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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unixgeek who wrote (2855)	3/1/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

*Programs (and programmers) who need to hide behind proprietaryness (?) are pretty ordinary. A good program(mer) is one which has value without obfuscation or obscurity.* or has never had a dead line. Its easy to sit around and talk about open standards but as someone who has had to deal with standards bodies they are not always the answer. I have particpated in Davic, IEEE 802, and the ATM Forum and some of these will drive you to proprietary standards. That said. I dunno how QP fits this mold. (EDIT: thought you were talking QP2 not MS) You get a scanning program builtin which is more complicated the 95% of the users want. for the other 5% you have standard programming language access with VB or C++. So where's the complaint here.... seems like there are aspects suited for Newbies and power users. How many programs provide that all in one??? EDIT: i see you were talking about Equis in which case I agree. BTW: as you also know text files are not the answer to everything binary formats are more effecient. Equis certainly show totally re-vamp data handling in Metastock. BTW: Technifilter handles lists with ease... Sean