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Tim

The exact same compiler is used for both - the compiler on the i. WDSC is, after all, a client to the i. It is not a compiler, only something that calls a compiler. And I'm waxing far to long on this!!

There IS a verifier in WDSC, which is meant to take some of the CPU load off the i until you are ready to actually create the object in question.

I agree with you and Scott - Scott said more succinctly what I've been trying to say in every post I've placed here in this thread. I learn new things about SEU very often - it's a very rich development environment. And copy/paste is always there in the emulator.

'Nuff said - have a great weekend.

Vern

Timothy Adair wrote:
Thank you Scott!

Finally, someone cuts through all the opinions (on both sides) and gets to the heart of the matter.

If programmer ABC writes the program in SEU/PDM and programmer XYZ writes it in WDSc/RDi, and the user sees and runs the exact same program, who cares which programming environment it was written in? (Pardon the bad grammar.)

Perhaps we need to remember that our primary purpose as developers is to support the user. Period. Every user - from the data entry operator to the CEO.

Now that I'm done ranting, allow me to ask a question. Does compiling the same source in PDM produce the exact same object as compiling it in WDSc/RDi?





"Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.14503.1268429052.2580.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technically, PDM and SEU are not the same thing. But, PDM calls SEU when it needs to edit code.

They both come together as part of a package named ADTS. (Application Development Tool Set) along with a few other things.

Personally, I think the advantages of WDSC/RDi/RDP over PDM/SEU are being constantly overstated in these forums. There are certainly some things that RDi does better, like copy/paste, outline view, syntax highlighting.

But these things aren't the ultra-awesome, revolutionary things that folks in these forums make them out to be. Yes, copy/paste is better in RDi, but I could still do it in SEU, and I could do it pretty well. Yes, outline view is useful, but searching out what I'm looking for also works. Yes, syntax highlighting/coloring can be nice, but I can read my code okay when it's all one color.

Personally, I think the user interface seen by the USER is far more important than the interface seen by the DEVELOPER.


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