> That's the general consensus here, except for the odd netbeans/jbuilder
> reject who tries to turn IDEA into those bloated tools! (just
> kidding...mostly)

Plus in my experience, wizards are great for newbies but in the end you 
always have to throw them away if you get into any kind of advanced 
program or need to actually UNDERSTAND what you are doing ;-)

I've seen so many "programmers" who can't do anything without their 
wizards. It makes me fear for the quality of software all over the world 
:(

...one example - a guy was taking over from me on a complicated and messy 
Delphi contract (thankfully patching other peoples' Delphi is in my past 
now <g>) and I was showing him around the code during the cross-over 
period. I was talking about the virtual methods used in some of the 
classes... and he asked me what a virtual method was. I tried to 
explain... but his eyes glazed over and I saw he didn't understand a 
thing about OO. That software was doomed! I could see on his CV that he 
used Wizards and code helpers for everything (he mentioned them all in 
his CV) and warned the guys but did they listen?

Cheers



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