The first two sound a good idea.


     IMHO I really do not wish to see the PICLIST split up at all, in
     general though there are generally two types of discussion going on in
     the list. The first is talk of things explicitly about the PIC and
     tricks to with the firmware or hardware, the other is people asking
     about applications they have for the PIC, but the solution could in
     general be implemented on ANY processor if required. Also anyh
     programming tricks are very rarely peculiar to only one
     micrcontroller, lest face it in general the PIC is an accumulator
     based machine and you cant run away from it, and a large number of
     other uC are very similar .... there are exceptions to this when you
     get into the nitty gritty of the firmware/hardware so no flames please
     8-).

     I would guess by the name 'PICSOURCES' this would be where people are
     asking about PIC specific things, including progarmming and harwdare
     interface kind of tricks. With 'PICAPPLICATION' being there to talk
     about generic kinds of applications.

     Although in theory spliting the PICLIST up to make an abstaract
     generalisation into classes of PICRESOURCES and PICAPPLICATION for you
     Object Orientated Design people out there, I believe that you loose
     the major advantage of the list if it is split, because if people do
     not subscribe to BOTH lists the lets say they are discusiing and
     application in the one list, but it could be clear to another person
     (reader) that the application could beneift from a particluar PIC
     specific programming/harwdare trick ..... this is 'the icing on the
     cake' as it were!

     Hence I propose that to get the best out of both of these, that we
     aggregate the two lists to form as class called 'PICLIST' and leave it
     alone, cos it isnt broke.

     kind regards,
     SW.


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Subject: Re: PICLIST: should it be splitted?
Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
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Date:    02/12/97 18:15


Hi Chris (Chris Mayhew), in <1.5.4.32.19971118034006.0068b904@bopis.co.nz> on
Nov 18 you wrote:

> PICSOURCES
> PICAPPLICATION
>
> etc. What do you think?

What about PICTRICKS?