Re: Dropping or cleaning a schedule

[Theodore C. Belding]

At 11:03 AM -0500 6/28/97, Paul Johnson wrote:

>Does anyone have (or is there available, possibly in the mailing list
>archive where I can't find it) a glossary of SWARM objects, which library
>they are housed in, and how they are used, and what for?  I've found the
>swarmdocs, of course, and I've studied a bit about defobj and the others.
>But I feel like a heat bug, poking at random directions in the dark,
>without a MAP or SCHEDULE.  I understand I can screw around with
>Hello.world and the tutorial, and I have, but I still have this unhappy
>feeling of wandering in n-space.

I agree with you completely -- this is the main reason why the docs are
still inadequate for new users.  The most important thing in any good
reference manual is the index.  When I was learning Swarm, it involved
heavy use of grep just to find what file a particular routine or object was
located in.  I gave up on having any sort of overview on how it all works.
Documentation should still be the Swarm Team's #1 priority. (If nothing
else, decent docs would give Glen more time to do actual programming,
instead of answering questions all the time.)
-Ted

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Ted Belding                               address@hidden
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/



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