From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 16 12:29:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29274 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29267 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03005; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:31:20 +0200 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:31:18 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Thats the 60k line of codes question: What do we need to entice people > > to write applications and/or can someone come up with a long list > > of applications so that when new volunteers come on board they > > could at least have an idea of whats needed? > > > > Amancio > > A GUI builder so that all they have to do is fill in case statements > with calls to their code. > > A decent visual debugger. For instance, in the MS debugger, if you > let the pointer sit on a variable on the screen for a second, it will > display the value of the variable. > > The ability to click on compilation error mesages and go to the offending > line of code (with the offending portion(s) of the statement highlighted. > > A "colorized" editor (a friend of mine keeps threatening to "colorize" > vi ... he must have Ted Turner in his family tree somewhere. 8-)). > > > A market for the finished products so that the investment/reward ratio > is somewhere near that for Windows. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Ok, ok - I'll try to do what I can. I have a feeling I will learn many things I haven't otherwise. Could some just fish out a reference to a real RDBMS (no toys - I mean something like Oracle, Gupta, Informix, etc.) running on FreeBSD so that I would not have to throw it out of my server and replace it with Windows NT or OS/2 when the money for the database arrives (and it will). Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)