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Dennis Rootes wrote:
Well, if that was directed at me I'd like to point out that I wasn't
complaining or ranting. I simply said that I understand why purely green
screen programmers feel the way they do about WDSc, and gave my opinion
that until WDSc can do everything inside the IDE without requiring people
to switch out to a green screen, I personally feel that it won't gain
acceptance to the regular green screen programmers. Why should they
switch when the green screen does everything they need?
I agree with the final sentence, very much.
However. I think it can be phrased a bit differently: 'What do they
_expect_ that WDSC will do for them?' The emphasis on expectations.
I'm glad to see your expectation above: '...until WDSc can do everything
inside the IDE...' because it leads to a productive discussion.
In the case of '...until WDSc can do everything inside the IDE...' I
think that this expectation will never be met, ever. I never held that
view, and possibly, that's why I happily alt-tab between emulator and
IDE, just as I used to alt-tab between emulator-session-with-editor and
emulator-session-to-test.
I don't mean that as a knock on your opinion - with a drawer of CDs, a
menu bar of icons and a bewildering array of new vocabulary terms to
come to grips with, I'd have pretty high expectations, too. The reason
I don't have these sorts of expectations is that I've been using a GUI
editor for a long time.
WDSC is not a PDM-killer. It is a pretty good IDE, slightly better than
PDM because of more screen real estate and coloured tokens. That's it.
For an RPG programmer, the bulk of WDSC is a waste of disk space.
When veteran SEU users load up WDSC and they expect it to just kill SEU,
they will be underwhelmed and be very tempted to shelve WDSC. Why learn
all that... stuff when there's no discernible advantage?
Well, WDSC is not a PDM-killer. It's a PDM alternative. I think that
if more people approached WDSC with that philosophy in mind, they'd be
happier trying it out.
I agree with everything you've said, and I think the key to adopting
WDSC is setting reasonable expectations, or perhaps accepting the
product for what it currently is, rather than what people think it
promises to be in the future.
Very best regards,
--buck
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