From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T09:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Criteria 1.0

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:15:29 +0900
Tim Bates <tim@bates.id.au> wrote:

<snip>
> [Criteria] is some seriously, seriously funky magic. Ryan, I'm
> extremely impressed.  Once more the power of Ruby astounds me. The
> ability to translate the same abstract Ruby query into SQL code or
> an array lookup is just fantastic. Good work.

Well, it was highly inspired by flgr's Junction code; that's where
the basic magic came from.  Glad you like it though. =)

> One of these days I'm going to have to take a look at Mephle. If it's
> anything like as good as this, I'm in!

Mephle is less funky magic and more just doing mundane things for you.
If you do web stuff at all, you'll probably find it takes a lot of
work out of the process; by 1.0 I hope to be able to say the same
about arbitrary GUI apps.

Thanks,

-- 
Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

"I sure as hell didn't learn anything, if thats what you mean." - 8BT