<div>Had reason to look at the Corel Draw 12 "DOM" - for want of a better word, the other day.</div>
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<div>Each object - Shape (IDrawShape), has a kind of internal extendible database field in it, and one of the standard fields in it is "Cost" which is pre-formatted to $#,##0.00</div>
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<div>Interesting.</div>
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<div>(Someone told me that Corel was bought out by a set of Accountants in San Francisco some years ago)</div>
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<div>Still, interesting concept.</div>
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<div>Paul<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Bird</b> <<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I thought the Microsoft lesson was to take something that works, rewrite it<br>to subtly alter how it works and make it three times larger ;)
<br><br>("Exmbrace Extend and Extinguish" is the phrase used for MS on this, also<br>by insiders)<br><br>Just stirring!<br><br>John<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">
delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a>] On<br>Behalf Of Richard Vowles<br>Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 10:19 a.m.<br>To: <a href="mailto:karlreynolds@xtra.co.nz">
karlreynolds@xtra.co.nz</a>; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>Subject: RE: [DUG] Productivity<br><br><br>Yes<br><br>Why re-write something that works? You learn not the Microsoft Lesson!<br>:-)<br><br>Richard<br>
PS why is your email address Karl and you sign your email Carl?<br>---<br>Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand<br>email: <a href="mailto:richard.vowles@borland.com">richard.vowles@borland.com</a><br>phone: +64-9-9184573
<br>cell: +64-21-467747<br>other: MSN <a href="mailto:richard.vowles@borland.com">richard.vowles@borland.com</a>, skype: rvowles<br>blog: <a href="http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769">http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769
</a><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a>]<br>On Behalf Of Karl @ Home
<br>Sent: Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:08 a.m.<br>To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br>Subject: RE: [DUG] Productivity<br><br>Hmmm... every time I rewrite a module, it ends up doing the same job (albeit<br>in a much more correct and functional way) with code usually somewhere
<br>between one half and one third its original size, sometimes less. I've<br>expunged very many thousands of lines of crap code, maybe even more than<br>I've written!<br><br>Does this mean my productivity is negative?<br>
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