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[Discuss] Event Timestamps



Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:
> store with the event (Python makes is to easy to put it in an
> attribute), yet they don't capture something so basic. They do an
> event queue, but don't tell me when the events happened. It is one
> thing to not tell me about a double-click, but to not even give me the
> data to decide for myself? Stupid!

YAGNI gone wild?  I think you've written that you don't like Perl, but
have you considered using a language with an on average more experienced
user base?  What are your thoughts on Common Lisp? That seems to tend
towards completeness from what I've seen from playing with it.

-- 
Mike Small
smallm at panix.com



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