For your reading enjoyment, here is the text for "The House That Jack Built". I couldn't find who authored it. Still looking. I just have one question. If it was the house the Jack built, who was the man that was all tattered and torn. Sounds fishy to me.


This is the house that Jack built.

This is the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the rat
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the farmer sowing the corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.



>>Unfortunatly, I don't know the answers to these questions. I just did a search for him on google.com. His personal web site is www.theproblemsolver.nl and it looks like he sold his framework to a company called FairTree who can be found at www.fairtree.nl. The framework can be downloaded from there, and has documentation (sort of). The class part of the documentation seems to be missing. Other than that, I just dug into the code.
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>>The reason for a seperate object for each "set command" is because he leaves them instantiated for the life of the app. He could have written one object that had a property for each of the set commands, but the ultimate OOP (notice I used the word 'ultimate' rather than 'true') way to do it is to have a set command object that you subclass for each specific set command instance that you need (ie. One for clock, one for point, one for this, one for that, one for the house that Jack built, etc., etc., etc.).
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>>Other than that, I haven't dug into this framework much. Maybe on a rainy day...
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>BTW, can you tell me the story of a house, what Jack built? We have this poem translated and it sounds very funny (!), but I didn't know, it was a translation. Just curious to see this poem in English, who is the author, BTW?
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>Thanks in advance.