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Ketil Malde wrote:

> "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> 
>>that changes the fact that MSVC++ provides navigation, GUI building,
>>class libraries, debugging, building, etc., all together in one
>>convenient package
> 
> Now, if only it *worked*.
> 
> (I always hated the way it often failed to find function definitions,
> how the class view took ages to scroll, how the pop-up boxes sometimes
> worked, sometimes not, and sometimes were just annoyingly slow, how
> Source Safe screwed up merges, etc etc)
> 
> -kzm


Part of "that" problem is actually due to the underlying language

begin supported. Ada is easily supported by an IDE because there
are no _macros_ in the language to obscure what's behind them.

Visual Studio has to lean on specially formatted (and ugly!) comments
everywhere.  Add to that, the fact that MuckySoft has a fetish
for C macros. This leaves you with a recipe for a "can't win"
scenario in an IDE. But this is consistent with their "good enough"
philosophy.

I just don't agree that it is good enough.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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