On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:
> People either love or hate VAJ. I happen to hate it and don't believe
> in IDE's that try to be too smart
Point taken.
> VAJ doesn't even let you see the whole source for a class. Then again,
> if you have a VAJ itch, I believe your pharmicist can perscribe some
> creams to fix that. <grins>
Thank you... :-)
> You ever had to maintain the underlying code that is generated by such
> tools. It's ugly and typically unmaintainable.....but in the real world
> you always have to dig into the code (every reasonably complex project I
> have ever seen has).....so the costs soon outweight the benefits.
We have been using VAJ for nearly two years, so yes I did have to maintain
the code. It is not too bad a job if you use the same IDE for maintenance.
Once you start using an editor on the generated code you're lost...
> And so why are you recommending VAJ when it is already obsolete? Guess
> the GUI builder just wasn't that useful in the real world after all. ;-)
I'm not trying to recomend using VAJ. I was trying to point to the usefull
part of it, the 'drag and drop' you application option. However given your
preference for 'low-level' tools I don't think you'll appreciate it.
(There are remedies for that itch as well :-) )
BTW, most of my development is being done on *nix machines using vi and
whatever compiler/interpreter I need at that moment...
Regards,
Jac
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Jac Kersing Technical Consultant The-Box Development
j.k...@th... http://www.the-box.com
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