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From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: RAD and CASE for Unix
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote:

|Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:56:09 GMT
|From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
|To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
|Subject: Re: RAD and CASE for Unix
|
|On 23 Nov 1999 21:52:58 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.chat you wrote:
|
|>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
|>
|>> Are we going to see an avalanche of bug-infested bloatware ? 
|>
|>I'm sure that we will.  However, the biggest difference is that the
|>bug-infested bloatware can only hurt itself instead of killing the entire
|>system. 
|
|Come on folks, this is too simplistic.  Take something like Delphi which
|compiles fast, tight code. RAD tools are no substitute for good design and
|coding practicies, they should be looked at as a set of tools to take the
|drudgery out of programming.  I for one would really welcome some more
|modern development tools for FreeBSD.
|
|	---Mike
|Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
|Sentex Communications Corp,   		
|Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
|"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
|could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
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Why even compile? Use a scripting lang like python for RAD. Then you are not
locked into a specific vendor and your code is portable from the get go. Python
takes the 'drudgery' out of things for me.

	=derek

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