Re:RE: "Webulating" RPG

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Yes you can be productive using SEU, but you can be MUCH MORE 
>productive using Code/400.

You know that.  *I* know that.  Prove it to the guy that signs the check.

>Though Booth and I disagree on other subjects, this is one we 
>are in total agreement on.  Using a full featured GUI source 
>editor will make you wonder how you tolerated SEU for so long.

Hear, hear!

>But you must give it a chance.  It will take some getting used 
>to.  After all, you have probably been using SEU for a very long 
>time (I've used it since it was U1540 on the Sys/3 model 15D). 
> And you are very familiar with it.  Give it a week or two at 
>least.  And learn the keyboard shortcuts.

Heretic!!!!!  You should have used LIBMAN <VBG>
Seriously, I found that the first week of using Flex/Edit (ver 1)
took a day or so to become SEU equivalent, and about 2
weeks to become reasonably fluent.  If you want to write your
own extensions, it'll take maybe a week of twiddling until
you get the parms just right.

>The thing I don't understand is why don't they teach typing at 
>the computer schools?  I've never heard of typing 101 being a 
>requirement at any level: High School, Vocational Technical, 
>Community College,  or University.  It is not high speed word 
>processor typing we need as must of the typing we do is what I 
>call "burst mode".  20 or 40 keystrokes (for RPG, 50 or 100 for 
>C/C++ and 1,000 for Cobol <g>...ducking) think a bit, then 
>another burst.

You know, this isn't as silly as it sounds.  Even with SEU, you'd
be amazed at the productivity you can recover when the novice learns
that the cursor wraps along all four sides of the screen.  Or that TAB
is a lot faster than arrow keys to move to input capable fields.
Keyboarding should be the FIRST thing we learn, alas, it's often the
last.  Do you have your terminal emulator set up to use the standard
Win "cut/paste" keys?  Saves oodles of time instead of taking my
hands off the keyboard, finding the mouse, pointing to the "copy" icon,
going back to the kbd, inserting my blank line, going back to the mouse
and pointing to the "paste" icon....  Stupid example?  Maybe.  Look around
your shop sometime to see how many people (including your fellow
programmers) use inefficient keyboarding...

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY


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