A few comments on the archives

[Peter A. Friend]

On Tue, 11 May 1999 Hans-Dieter.Dreier@materna.de wrote:

> >"Peter A. Friend" wrote:
> 
> >> I have to go back and reread the IDE stuff, but I think that making
> >> everything GUI is a bad idea. If it is provided it should be an option.
> >> GUI only slows me down.
> 
> Well, I don't see any reason why there couldn't be a command-line interface as well, but I personally like the idea of writing my programs by point'n click / drag'n drop more.
> It certainly is a matter of taste (and one's skills). If you got everything laid out in your head and seldom need an online help, you'd definitely be faster without GUI.
> 
> Alas, I often have to consult the online help to look up some specs and I often misspell things when I type them.

Hey I need as much online help as the next guy, if not more. ;-)

When using a tool like C++ Builder where you have pre-built
components that you drop onto forms it makes a lot of sense. I have no
problem with that. My only concern was that everything would only be
accessible via the GUI. For me, having to move the mouse and click is
much slower than typing "make". More than anything though, I don't like
using the GUI code editors. I DO like the syntax highlighting, but I
can write code so much faster in vi, the GUI editor becomes
frustrating. I also like the ability to pipe my code through indent,
lint, etc.

I should also admit that I have a dislike of GUIs because I have had to
write a number of the things recently. :P

Peter


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