RE: PDM/SEU

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> 
> But it is an added expense, and an unnecessary one at that. 
> Productivity
> does not require GUI and GUI does not beget productivity. A good many
> programmers, seem to have been highly productive for a good many years
> before the advent of GUI.
> Regardless of how difficult the move is, the cost is prohibitive. When
> you consider the price you pay for RPG, SEU, and other green screen
> utilities. The fact that you can go GUI is not the right reason to do
> so. 

I agree with you - using it just because it's GUI isn't the right reason to
go to it.  The right reason to go to it is because it can do things that
make a programmer more productive - and in my opinion both CODE and
Flex/Edit do.  I could go through a whole host of things that I find more
productive about them, but I can't make a convincing case without actually
showing them to you, which is a bit hard to do via e-mail.

Note that the original version of Flex/Edit was NOT a GUI app, but a
text-based DOS (and OS/2!) application.  I used it and loved it, it was a
HUGE improvement over SEU for me.  In fact, there are a few things I like
about that editor that the current Windows crop haven't really matched yet,
many years later.

As for the "prohibitive" cost, I guess that's a perspective issue.  It
hasn't been an issue for me, either here or at my previous employer's.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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