Re: Re: RESOLVED: EMC is poorly designed and implemented.

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Keith 

Thanks for the attribution.  It is a bit overstated because it was Fred 
Proctor that got us started with Tcl/Tk and did a lot of the work.

Others

There is a lot of work that could be done to bring the code into line with 
current uses.  Several folk have had interesting discussions about changes 
that could/should be made to the code.  I remember one conversation recently 
in the halls of NIST while walking between the shop and the ISD offices.  
Someone suggested that maybe we should scrap much of the code and start 
again!   I was probably the most surprised of the bunch.

I don't believe that any of it is sacred.  What might be close to sacred are 
the variety of things that we currently do with it and have planned for it in 
the near future.  Then there are those dream/wish additions that each one of 
us have.

Thanks for this thread.  As Fred continues to say, we need a committee to 
establish directions for the code.

Ray


On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:52 am, Keith R wrote:
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> 2. EMC consists of GUI (Tcl/tk),  EMC (mot,NML,task, rcs_impl) and the
> Real-time Control System. EMC was written to demo the RCS, I believe. (My
> short synopsis - RCS providing control framework language, EMC doing an
> implementation of a machine control app.) The GUI by Ray H. written to
> improve the X-windows interface. (which it did, thanks, Ray!)