[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-17 01:21:39 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> With a bit of thought, and preparation, drudgery becomes much less, and 
> the whole would have been more complex without the logical names. 
> People working on programs don't have to think about where to find the 
> programs, they know, because logical names greatly simplifies things.
> 
> Logical names are a rather good thing.

When all you've got is a logical name, it looks and works.

Logical names as an app configuration tool are an in-memory key-value 
store, and one that lacks sequential and substring access to the keys, 
and limited to string data, and one not particularly local to the app 
itself and—having chased more than my share of these—a proclivity for 
collisions.  An app-associated configuration file would likely be 
preferable for most cases, and easily far more flexible in how it is 
structured and what data it can contain, and how the data can be 
encoded and stored.

I've certainly used logical names as configuration tools.  Then I 
started encountering app configuration and settings preferences 
persistence support available in various other operating systems.  And 
that made the weaknesses of logical names rather more clear.

But we work with what we have.  And we deal with the resulting 
morasses, such as the {and you knew this was going to be mentioned} C 
RTL features logical name quagmire.


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