[PaQSO] RE: QRP, Mults, Scoring, et al

[Glenn O'Donnell, K3PP]

Goody K3NG wrote:
> I won't disagree on the "weird" scoring point, but I have to ask why 
> major contest programs have such difficulty dealing with this.  In 
> this day and age of programming, an end user should be able to define 
> a custom contest from scratch in a program using a set of rules, a 
> wizard, or a scripting language.  I've often wondered why logging 
> programs are often inflexible in this regard.  Back in the days of DOS 
> programming, you pretty much started programming from scratch and it 
> took a lot more work to do stuff like this.  Today you have all kinds 
> of libraries, widgets, APIs, and code repositories to work with that 
> makes end user

I'm afraid much of the amateur radio software is still stuck in those 
old days, although N1MM, WB3W, and a few others seem to do it right.

VY 73 de Glenn K3PP
http://www.k3pp.com