Re: An Ada advocacy method

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, MSVC++ was still C++ and was as buggy and clumsy as many other 
Microsoft things, so I'd not try to hold it up as the ultimate IDE or 
otherwise declare it to be the Best Of All Possible Universes. What I 
would say is that it provides a good example of how parts of an IDE can 
be tightly integrated and how having all those capabilities working 
together can make development more efficient.

Ultimately, you can't have the tightest possible integration of the 
variety of tools available without making it difficult or impossible to 
substitute some other tool into the mix. Ex: If I want the GUI builder 
to generate application code for me, its going to end up dependent on 
what the compiler is capable of and what is available in the library. I 
can't just yank out the compiler or library and put something else in 
its place and still expect the GUI builder to go along fat, dumb and 
happy, not noticing that what it needed is no longer there.

MDC

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> 
> My 'fondest' memories of MSVC++ are typing several lines of compiler 
> options, linker options, and search paths into windows that were one 
> line by maybe 20 characters long.  You could do it, and scan through it 
> to eliminate typos.  But you could really tell that Microsoft was trying 
> to send you a message about linking in foreign software.
> 


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