On 2/26/14, 8:53 AM, Bill Arnold wrote:
Maybe I'm seeing this wrong, but I'm hoping I don't have to get involved with a whole bunch of technologies. I expect to use a rather simple interface (from VFP), using say Craig Boyd's JSON class in my wrapper. Again, maybe it's too simplistic, but I'm just looking for the ability to let the operator pick/change/formulate questions, submit, and read the answers
I'm speaking in more general terms than one JSON/VFP wrapper to your "hoping I don't have to get involved with a whole bunch of technologies".
I think mixing up a whole bunch of technologies plus adding your (secret sauce || glue || custom code) really is the best way to go. Sure it is kind of a pain keeping track of new developments for dozens of libraries, but the ensuing mindset (modularity) also makes it much easier to, well, swap one module out for another and see if it works better for your overall recipe.
I don't ever want to become dependent on a single platform, development environment, or (to a lesser extent) monolithic framework ever again.
UNIX had it right in this respect all along: build tools that accept simple input and give simple output. That tool can be quite complex, and there could be dozens or hundreds of switches and configuration options - some of them buggy and misdocumented - but still, accept input and give output, allowing other tools to chain things together easily and simply. And keep all configuration human-readable whenever possible.
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