Jessica Keyes' May Commentary should be framed and hung on the walls of every business that intends to buy into any IT (information technology) solution. BYTE should heed what it prints; why go through the pain of setting up "BYTE's Video Workshop" (May) using a collection of conflicting PC technology and then print, "but it isn't yet plug and play" when plug-and-play systems exist? Keyes makes the point that we MIS types lean heavily on the advice of trade publications. True--so perhaps if BYTE dedicated more space to those systems that
are
plug and play rather than writing about the hoops one will jump through to simulate it, the industry and the end user would be better off.
Brent Daviduck
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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