Re: RdI vs SEU

David Gibbs wrote:

On 3/15/2010 4:42 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I am on average twice as productive in RDi, whether it's the outline or the content assist or the colored syntax or the task view or the ease of copying source from one machine to another or the powerful search capabilities or the user-defined commands or ...

Wow ... you're not very productive at all Joe <grin/>.

Story of my life, compadre <grin>

I am at least 90% more productive using RDi ... and I don't like outline view & don't use content assist.

Just having a larger view of source, copy & paste, being able to view 2 or more source members at the same time, etc, all make me far more productive.

Yeah, heck, I forgot the sheer real estate issue. That in itself is worth the price of admission.

And that's working on a mix of RPG II through ILE.

"RPG II"??? What have I told you about vulgarity, Joe! <grin times="2"/>

Yeah, I know, I know. But there are still a few internally described display files lurking out there, and sometimes you don't have the time to rewrite them...

SEU has no place as the primary development tool for a programmer, in ANY language. It works, but it's the wrong tool for the job.

Sadly, I can't agree entirely with that ... RDi / RDp have a long way to go when it comes to CL. That's primarily what I use SEU for now.

What's your biggest complaint? The auto-correct, or the line length? I found that turning off auto-correct made it usable in WDSC, while in RDi it's good enough if I set the line length correctly. My biggest complaint is that the prompter messes up my pretty leading comments...

How often do you use SEU to write Java code, Vern?

Vulgarity!

Yes, but I did it. I had to try it. Then again, I typed code in on a 3741 (and I think Jon use 96-column conch shells).

Joe