On 7 Apr 1999, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> "Michael S. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > Just one comment. I use GCC and I was wondering; is there anything,
> > noteworthy, that you can do with CW that cannot be done with GCC?
>
> No one else seems to pick up on this, so I'll continue to beat
> my horse into the ground: having a visual UI builder (MW Constructor)
> has some massive advantages over a text-compilation based one
> (PilRC). If I actually had a system that MW ran on, I'd buy it
> immediately, as the $360 would be very quickly recouped in UI
> development time.
Well, let me pound on the other side of the ungulate for a moment: having
a text-compilation based UI builder (PilRC) has some massive advantages
over a visual one (MW Constructor), and I spent a lot of development time
creating such an environment for the Mac using Rez, back in the good ol'
days.
Put another way: it's not very easy to use macros and manifest constants
in Constructor.
(Now, a visual constructor that _can_ use macros and manifest constants...
That would be fun. I wonder what it would look like. Maybe a cross between
Visio and Geometers Sketchpad?)
--
Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)
