From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffe4fb1477fe67e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice References: <1178212418.538270.283700@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <5abtplF2n3855U1@mid.individual.net> <1178650313.462774.91850@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:21:56 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o0SYOcY7S94gGMz6/44yJqZtGDA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.36.55 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1178658810 88.74.36.55 (8 May 2007 23:13:30 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15661 Date: 2007-05-08T23:21:56+02:00 List-Id: ezkcdude writes: > All helpful responses. Thanks. One idea that now makes some sense > (having thought about it for all of a couple of hours), is that the > GUI/interface could be a separate application that simply sets up the > experiment (i.e. microscope configuration). For example, creating an > XML document with appropriate hardware parameters, and then feeding > this document to the "engine", which actually controls the microscope. Don't use XML for that. Overkill. Just plain old tagged data lines param1 2342.2423 param2 32423.234 or even a 1-line per call CALL function_name 1212 123123 123 1112 will suffice and be more readable. Imap uses lispish lists as interface. Regards -- Markus