RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Trevor Perry wrote:

If you are still coding in "edit, compile, run, fail, debug, edit, 

compile,
run, fail, debug, edit, compile" mode, then it would seem you are using 
WDSc
as you did with PDM - this is not a true Integrated Development 
Environment.

Rob Berendt wrote on 15/12/2006 02:39:22 PM:

Some might argue that you use Verify, instead of Compile.  Granted the 
first time you run Verify you will not be impressed, but it has to cache 

a 

bunch of stuff.  Repeated attempts to Verify should run faster.  Now, 
we've got plenty of horsepower in our development lpar that I often just 

compile instead of verify.

Verify can be nice if you don't want to use up processor time on your 
System i.  It doesn't really do anything substantive to change the 
development process Trevor mentions, however.  It just adds a couple of 
steps:
"edit, compile, run, fail, debug, edit, compile, run, fail, debug, edit, 
compile"  becomes "edit, verify, fix syntax errors, run, fail, debug ...".

Trevor seems to be implying that using an IDE can prevent logic errors, 
which IMHO doesn't follow.

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