Re: PDM/SEU

Well,

i do not think there's something wrong with tasting a new milkshake that 
everybody claims to be excellent. I do not hesitate to tell everybody that 
i do not like it *when i do not like it*, even when i'm the only person 
with this opinion.

I'm absolutely convinced that *clever* editors could increase development 
speed. When i think of Microsofts Visual Basic Editor, with presenting all 
possible methods and properties in a smart list box while i'm typing and 
imagine an editor on the PC doing the same for all functions, even the 
self-built ones, and the nice thing that it changes the case in variable 
names to that in the DIM statement automatically - great! I want that for 
RPG-editing, too!

But i haven't found anything similar.

I don't think that looking around and testing has something to do with 
lemmings and eyes-closed. AS/400 doesn't stand for Amish System, so we do 
not have the need to stick where we are.

0.02 Euro

Anton Gombkötö


At 12:23 30.05.00 -0500, you wrote:
><weak attempt at sarcasm>
>But Anton you forget; the lemming mentality has forced many otherwise
>sane individuals before you to plunge headlong - eyes closed - into the
>murky, but much more productive, world of GUI source editors.
>Given time I am sure we will all be infected with the same sloth-like
>aversion to individual thought as afflicts most developers today.
></weak attempt at sarcasm>
>
>Anton Gombkötö wrote:
> >
> > Some posts started me to desire a PC based editor.
> >
> > I downloaded the evaluation version of Code/400 and the "basis part",
> > whatever it is called, but not Visual RPG. (V3R2M3)
> >
> > I think i should have loaded Visual RPG too, as the installation warned me
> > some hundred times that there was something missing. (Warning 016). I was
> > so keen that i pressed the enter button that often.
> >
> > Then, a little crash, but i could continue and so did the installation
> > program.
> >
> > When making the connection, this program was the only one i ever saw that
> > had a field for IP-address that was too short. "111.111.111" is all that
> > fits in. OK, i used the system name.
> >
> > Then, the progarm told me that 2 PTF's were mising. I installed them,
> > nothing wrong with it.
> >
> > Then i was told that i had a current library QGPL in my user profile.
> > Bullshit. I had *CRTDFT in it. I changed it, the program was happy.
> >
> > In the open box, i wasn't able to open any source on the AS/400. The help
> > didn't enlighten me. Error messages are error numbers, but help is
> > available and jumps to the bookmark, wow.
> >
> > I did the whole process two times. As there are clever people recommending
> > it, i couldn't believe it.
> >
> > In the meantime, i removed this rubbish. Almost every game demo behaved 
> better.
> >
> > I'm confessed that the real product is much better, but i will never 
> know...
> >
> > The time i spent is worth more than 0.02 Euro...
> >
> > Anton Gombkötö
> > Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Best regards
> >
> > Anton Gombkötö
> > mailto:Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com
> >
> > AS Software GmbH
> > http://www.assoft.com
> >
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> > A-1210  Wien
> >
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> > Fax:+43 1 278 15 01-22
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Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Best regards

Anton Gombkötö
mailto:Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com

AS Software GmbH
http://www.assoft.com

Jedleseer Strasse 3
A-1210  Wien

Tel: +43 1 278 15 01-0
Fax:+43 1 278 15 01-22

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