RE: WDSC and Linux -- CODE400-L

Glad to hear I am not the only one;-)

Is there a reason you can't copy the functionality MS has, IBM? 

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:36 AM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: WDSC and Linux


I'm a long way with you, Aaron. MS' Visual Studio IDE is so much easier to 
work in than anything IBM has come up with. And I could qualify as a 400 
bigot. I've mostly worked in VB (pre .NET). Code completion is a dream 
there - parameters are clearly indicated. Help is normal Windows - maybe 
the goal is platform independence for the help in WDSC, but it is painful 
to wait for it. And when you are in a help page in WDSC, you cannot search 
- it tells you to go back to the RSE - yuk!

I'm finding that I have to become a Java guru, almost, to make this thing 
work even close to reasonably. But we don't do any Java, so we have no 
time, nor motivation, to find out that much about it. One of us does very 
well with CodeWright - gets all kinds of cross-referencing, etc., I 
believe, for the C code we write. Cl does great with SEU/PDM. I often 
prefer to use TextPad for C - any ASCII editor is better than waiting for
RSE.

Of course you need to set some things in MS' IDE, but you don't need to 
know how to tweak the operational stuff that runs it, whereas you need to 
know Java niceties to get WDSC to work better. I can't afford the time - 
too much to do.

Regards

Vern

At 09:45 AM 7/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
><snip>
>Big Blue has sacrificed platform independence (at least for now) to get
>better tools than CODE/400 in your hands before you defect to a more
popular
>platform.
></snip>
>
>I hope to defect this year yet.  I am taking up .NET using Visual Studio.
>'Help' in WDSc looks like meal worms compared to the 'Help' in Visual
>Studio.  That is just one area where M$ kicks IBM's butt.  IBM would have
>done better to create their own language rather than stick with Java.  I am
>picking up the .NET environment way faster than Java, and that is because
>everything is so much more seamless to the Microsoft developer.  It just
>frustrates me I guess, IBM has a kick butt server and database, but less
>than adequate development environment.
>
>People like Joe Pluta would say everything is there that one could possibly
>need, and he would say that Java is much farther along than .NET - and he
>would probably be right, but he is a Java  guru at the top of his pack.
Try
>being a RPG/Java developer and make use of all the needed tools.  They are
>just too far out there for the average person to make sense of them in a
>timely manner.  I am sure I could make them all work together if I was
given
>a certain amount of time, but time is not what I have.
>
> >...you're likely to get your wish. Bummer!
>
>Not soon enough for me. :-(
>
>Sorry for the rant, but I couldn't help it. . .
>
>Aaron Bartell


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