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[Freecats-Dev] Re: Interface/vote
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Charles Stewart |
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[Freecats-Dev] Re: Interface/vote |
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:07:52 -0500 (EST) |
Some thoughts:
- If what we build is good enough, people will switch
tools and come to us, especially if we are nice enough
to provide 2-way migration tools. So the fear of Trados
and wordfast gaining too much momentum is illusory, not
real.
- I am more worried about lock-in, especially wrt. the
Python programming language. It is an excellent tool
for doing quick hacks that need OO, but it behaves almost
completely unlike any other programming language in its
semantics. If the reference implementation is Python,
we will find it difficult to support programmers who loathe
Python (and they do exist).
- I am all for a Java implementation. Java has excellent
libraries, and many PLs can target the JVM, including
python, tcl and Scheme. The recent brouhaha about "java
is inefficient, even Sus says so" applies *only* to Sun's
own JVM. IBM's JVM is better, and we can compile to native
C using gcc+CLASSPATH.
- I am assembling an argument that we will need to handle
hierarchical structure to get results with German->English
translation. More to follow, not necessarily all that soon.
Charles
- [Freecats-Dev] Re: Interface/vote,
Charles Stewart <=
- [Freecats-Dev] Trados/other CAT, Python/Java, German/English, Henri Chorand, 2003/02/19
- Message not available
- [Freecats-Dev] Re: Trados/other CAT, Python/Java, German/English, Henri Chorand, 2003/02/24
- [Freecats-Dev] Re: Trados/other CAT, Python/Java, German/English, Keith Godfrey, 2003/02/26
- [Freecats-Dev] Standalone client editor / OO integration (from Keith), Henri Chorand, 2003/02/26
Re: [Freecats-Dev] Re: Interface/vote, David N. Welton, 2003/02/19