>>>>>Hi All,
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>>>>>I have been totally swamped the last two weeks and have come up with a need that is forcing me out from under my rock... <g>
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>>>>>Do any of you know of any really good name parsing routines 'out there' that are free or could be incorporated into another product without too much fuss?
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>>>>First of all, before trying to understand what were the others writing about, I'd need a definition of a good name. After that, writing a parser for good names would be easy.
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>>>Now, are we looking for the Platonic "idea", or a Berkleian "appearance" or a Heideggerean "thing-in-itself"?
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>>Just a working definition, as in "tell me what is it that we're looking for". A blueprint for the workorder, a wish expressed, and the language better be precise, else you may get what you said you wanted, not what you thought you wanted.
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>>>Dragan, we Americans mostly don't bother with definitions. We "just do it" and see if it works. (Even if the phrase is Japanese.)
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>>I've noticed. I've also seen a lot of time wasted on "never mind, just make it and we'll see how it behaves". That's what you get when the developer sees farther than the designer, tells him what is wrong in the design, but the designer doesn't see the flaw until he gets a working model... so the poor guy has to make it first.
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>I say that as a wry comment on ourselves. I often find myself going "against the grain" because I like to have a clear understanding not only of what is desired, but design constraints and and sense of the complexity. Without that, you don't know if you're building the Empire State Building or a dog house<g>.
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>I saw a series of cartoons once, which really need to be viewed rather than described. The pictures showed mechanisms of increasingly greater complexity as they moved from engineering through marketing. But, what the customer wanted was a rubber innertube tied with a rope to a branch so that his child could swing in it. Describes the process well!
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> Jay

Jay,

What was the final picture as it finalized in marketing?

Renoir