>From what I recall from the pre-Windows days, most of the development software, particularly hardware-development tools, but also software development tools, I encountered under DOS and under *nix was equipped with its own GUI/IDE. That was, in fact one of its key weaknesses, in many cases, because you couldn't move tools or, in fact, sometimes even documents, from one context to another, and, in other cases, could "talk" to a peripheral in one package and not in another (more of a DOS problem than a *nix problem...with *nix, it was simply impossible to "talk" to that peripheral at all. By the time the peripheral was supported under *nix, it was obsolete.)
I don't care much for the problems that Windows has introduced, but it does make it easy to use poorly documented tools. Unfortunately, that's not universally the case. regards, Richard Erlacher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally > On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Richard Gray wrote: >> Ditto. Seems to be a poor substitute for Unix's (et al) make to me, >> but for >> the GUI addicted I can see it's appeal. GUI's didn't exist when I >> started in >> computing, so I don't really experience much pain doing things the >> 'old' way >> with arcane commands, and it's often much quicker. > > I agree, it's far more efficient. I don't consider it to be "the > old way" at all, though, simply because it existed before IDEs. The > vast majority of "grownup" (i.e., non-MS-Windows) software > development does not occur in an IDE. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Sdcc-user mailing list > Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
