> ....plus if you haven't noticed (all of you complaining about wizards), > IDEA is full of Wizards!!! They have simply been streamed lined for > quick use: > -Live Templates (itar,itit, etc) > -just about every damn refactoring function is a wizard... the IDEA > guys just didn't label them step 1, step 2, step 3, finish! > -new project > -the whole Code menu is full of wizards. > ....and so on. > Except that none of them hide what they're doing, or abstract things away from you so you're not sure what's happening to your code.
> MY point is that wizards don't make programmers bad, and you are not > going to make bad programmers go away by limiting an app. > You're right, sadly they don't go away. I wish if that were so though. Failing that, I'll settle for not encouraging them or pandering to them. > If a wizard or 'tool' or a command can help you stay focused on logic, > design, and architecture and not try to figure out if you have spelt a > variable correctly it should be there.... > Wizards do your architecture and design for you. If you want to do your coding by picking a GoF pattern in togetherJ then go for it. I for one will avoid such tools like the plague, since I know that nothing will ever beat the advantage of understanding the patterns and applying them yourself as and when needed. If you want an EJB wizard, use xdoclet or some such tool. If you want a servlet wizard, then go spend a month or two reading javadocs until you no longer do. If you need a MouseListener wizard, consider switching to VB. _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
