Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:13:26 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAD and CASE for Unix Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911241106330.22710-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com> In-Reply-To: <383bdf89.202795184@mail.sentex.net>
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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) | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message | 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 Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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