From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T12:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding, removing and redefining features at runtime


On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 09:04 PM, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:

> [snip]

>  Or is it inherently wrong and should not be
> permitted by the language/object model?
>
> [snip]

I also look forward to reading the article. Your question also gives me 
a chance to post a quote I ran across the other day (which I'm certain 
is familiar to many, but is new to me):

"[M]any computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to 
define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is 
impossible to think bad thoughts.  What they end up doing is killing 
the creativity of programming."
Larry Wall
http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html

The above expresses my own thoughts as to the language. On the object 
model question, I agree with the views of others that you do have to be 
careful.

Regards,

Mark