Autocoding project proposal.

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:57:19 GMT, Timothy Rue <threeseas at earthlink.net> wrote:
>On 26-Jan-02 07:43:17 phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>Here's my prediction: either Tim will not answer this, or if he does answer
>>it, it will not be with an explanation of how VIC does things, but with
>>two things: (i) a not-particularly-illustrative metaphor, and (ii) an
>>implication that programmers are too stupid/elitist/brainwashed to
>>understand him.
>
>[...]
>The trick in the question is like saying I have this idea for a router on
>an x y table that will be able to cut any shape I tell the system to cut.
>
>And then having someone ask me how it would cut a circle. And before
>anything but the example of a router and an x y table and a computer are
>presented.
>
>To explain how it cuts a circle could be explained by saying you have a
>hole in the middle of the table and you use the markings on the table to
>center up the material on the table. You then have an x and y bar tha you
>fold down on the table so to mark where you are to drill the hole in the
>material so to place a piviot point for an adjustable router base. From
>here you place the base piviot point thru the hole and into the x y table.
>Adjust the distance away from the piviot point the router tip is and turn
>the router on and lower it into the material and push it around the piviot
>point (counter clockwise for the typical router). The computer is a
>calculater you use to determine the distance away from the router bit that
>the center of the piviot point is, inorder to get the distance around the
>circle that you want. And this process will work.

I guess that accounts for (i)...

>
>Phil is to stupid to know all this. Right Phil?

...and this accounts for (ii).

Looks like I got it right.

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