"Michael P. Plezbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:09:54AM -0600:
> > > I haven't heard of any RAD tools for Linux, this doesn't strike me as
> > > the Unix way. If you want to use other people's functions, you know how
> > > to do that, or your own. RAD tools are for people that want to program
> > > without programming.
> >
> > Aha, it is the "it's hard for me, should be hard for you" mentality. :)
Oops, sorry, hadn't seen this one.
If you want to use fragments of other programs, making it `easy' then
why can't you just use the tools already available to do it? Most
editors will use multiple buffers and such and you can mix and match
from/to registers between them. I don't see the need for some GUIfied
nonsense. I never proposed that anything should be difficult for you :)
> I'm afraid I must also disagree with the above sentiment. If you want
> to do things the hard way, that is certainly your prerogative, but to
> denigrate RAD tools by saying they are not "the Unix way" (which is
> certainly not true) or that they are not for "real" programmers (which is
> also definitely not true) seems as silly as refusing to use a visual
> editor because "real men (or women) only use command-line editors--visual
> editors are for wimps."
Well, I stand by my statement that it's not the Unix way; it really
isn't. Perhaps there is a reason why there exists so few RAD tools out
there for Unix? If any at all?
I would also maintain that someone who just takes code snippets and
glues them together using point-and-click, maybe sometimes never even
looking at the code itself but with just generic labels and such, is
*not* a `real' programmer.
Perhaps I misconceive RAD tools though, as I've never personally seen
any in action.
--
Scott
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