On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering, though: Is there an area that Analog will not cover > because ClickTracks does? I don't mean to offend, but when I started using > Analog, Stephen was still in the academic world -- things were pretty > clear cut. Now he's working for ClickTracks and I must say I'm a bit > baffled as to the relation between Analog and ClickTracks. >
No offence, it's a good question. Let me clear it up. There is essentially no relationship, other than that I'm doing both. Analog will not do anything that is a distinctive feature of ClickTracks. For example, I designed a simple but really effective way of reporting the number of search terms from each search engine in ClickTracks [1]. Something like that I wouldn't put into analog. But actually, there are not many issues of that sort. ClickTracks is so different, because it's a browser-based app with an emphasis on the UI, that most of the stuff wouldn't really be applicable to analog. Where a feature happens to be in ClickTracks but is obvious, or common in other programs, I'm free to put it in analog too. Occasionally I use the same piece of code in both -- for example, there is some wildcard matching in ClickTracks which was inherited from analog, and the new formats for HOSTEXCLUDE which I introduced in version 5.30 of analog [2] were inherited from ClickTracks. But again, the programs are sufficiently different that that sort of crossover is rare. In short, my CEO trusts me to play fair and I do. [1] http://www.clicktracks.com/search_intuition.php [2] http://www.analog.cx/docs/whatsnew.html#new5.30 -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The internet is a reflection of our society. If we do not like what we see, the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society." (Vint Cerf) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
