On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:07PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): | > """ | > Limited Developer Tools | > | > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are | > available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio. | > Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop for Linux. | > """ | | yup. i rofl'd a bunch at that one. i mean, after all you can't use any | wizards on unix. which means that you write code, not macros :->.
I hadn't read the whole paragraph when I posted, just the summary at the top. Most of Debian is (probably, according to MS) coded in C++ and Java, right? ;-) Is C++ a language or a "GUI developer tool"? | > PS. This company is a Java shop and doesn't use Visual Studio at | > all, except for Visual Source Safe. It is similar to rcs, but | > with a gui frontend. I don't have much experience with cvs, | > but I know it is far superior! (The gui of VSS is nice, | > sometimes, though) | | it's similar to cvs indeed. with the difference that visual source | safe is known to corrupt the repository every now and then. i have | worked in a couple of scenarios with visual source safe and was always | surprised to find all the developers keeping their local copies backed | up several times. after a little while, it was obvious - every month | or so, visual source save four fsck up and the repository had to be | rebuilt... i have *never* had a problem with cvs! Interesting... BTW VSS is _not_ (very) similar to cvs -- VSS only allows 1 developer to work on a file at a time. Cvs allows concurrent development. VSS is similar to rcs (the cvs backend system). -D
