Script Limits vs dynamic programming

[David Bovill]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:31, Dr. John R. Vokey wrote:

> Thus, 
> rather being an essential part of metacard/RR, this dynamism becomes a
> feature *only* licensed users (developers?) can use, but can't retain 
> in the stacks they produce.

....

> for some, at least me, it is the dynamism that is my whole reason for 
> using metacard, recommending it to students, and so on.
> 
> John R. Vokey

For me as well - it is the whole reason I chose metacard over other
options.

Now I have to add the other reason that my business (selling solutions
to goverment and NGO's) is based on an "open source" strategy for which
I am keen (working with the people on and off the list) to help build an
open source community around the langauge. 

The community is currently a little small and not yet working together
on coding projects very actively, but this can be changed and grow. To
grow the community there must be a free downloadable product (the demo
or a stacks running from a standlaone that I create), which can allow
people to start to get involved. This requires that you can do do some
limited coding in the tools that are distributed. This is what is being
removed