John Doty <[email protected]> wrote: > But are you talking about genuine, essential capabilities, or just > sugar? An example from the coding world is the ability to single step > through code you're debugging. That's pure sugar: you don't need it, > it is a monumental waste of time, and the coders who are addicted to > it are not productive.
Yes, total agreement here! > Yet they swear it's essential... Oh yeah, all the ridicule I get from cow-orkers on sw projects as "the guy who doesn't believe in debuggers". > On the other hand, the ability to come back to a project after a > couple of years, make a small change, and have "make" regenerate all > of the data products: schematics, netlists, documention, software > drivers, etc. is almost priceless. Total agreement again! > Hurray for gEDA! Sorry, but I have to disagree with you here: gschem's assinine requirement of having an X11 display to generate PostScript output from the command line totally kills it. MS _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
