Re: OTP - menu fix

[grant hallman <unilogic@primus.ca>]

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At 05:49 AM 3/24/01 -0800, you wrote:
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>> That's one of the weaknessess of the whole concept of dll's, IMHO. Weren't
>> they supposed to be "libraries"? That would be, a public, well-specified
>> resource that ne1 can use. Instead, we've got private, shared and public
>> dlls. Instal some game or other, it adds a dll for video card or heaven
>> help us a VB run-time dll, then when it wants to uninstal, it has no way
>to
>> know whether some other app is now counting on it, or not. This whole
>> concept was not well thot out, methinks.
>
>It does keep track of howmany programs use the dll's, the weakness is that
>the programs must update the counter themselves, which many programmers
>forget.

That's exactly the kind of thing that's turned me into a grumpy old man ;)
The o/s knows perfectly well who's used a dll, it could add the counter
automagically on use - as well as allowing the prog to do it itself.

This is the most intrusive and bossy o/s i've ever seen, assuming all kinds
of authority over what can and can't get done, without accepting the
responsibilities that go along with the authority. 

E.g. an o/s can (and should) be designed from the ground up to handle
events and swapping programs, without bothering the programs about it. Then
u can write code as tho u owned the computer, in one long, funtion-driven,
logical block (i don't mean one module) - not the disjointed,
"event-driven" fragments that Windoze developers have been brainwashed into
thinking is normal.

But, i digress...

grant

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