Martin Wildam wrote: [...] >> Especially to Windows people, the .NET experience is a big temptation >> for the works-out-of-the-box experience. Java and the support >> ecosystem has come a long way since the first measly IDE's (Forte, >> JBuilder... ) but it was Visual Studio that really started that race >> back around 97'. No other editor had integrated debugger and code >> completion at the time. >> > > You are right - with a few exceptions. In the DOS world the > Borland IDEs for Turbo Pascal and C++ were very well working, > extremely stable and fast. > That brings back memories of dual-head setups with one VGA and one Hercules card :-) Paperwhite, not the crusty old amber or green. Still painful, but back then anything dual-head was impressive, and stepping through your Pascal on one screen while watching the results on the other was mindblowing.
I also remember clicking together whole applications in VisualAge on OS/2. Not just the layout, but also the behaviour: you could click through events and connect them visually to other components on screen (including non-GUI ones). I never used that in a serious application, but it certainly made an impressive tutorial that you could probably still use to sell products today. Must have been in the mid-90s, around the same time Windows 95 came out. Unfortunately it takes someone like MS to make these features work in the market. Afterwards the whole MCP crowd thinks it was all invented in Redmond :-) Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
