On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:03:43 -0800, Andy Dingley wrote: <snip> > GUI-based" is fairly unimportant as it's just how you build your > programs, not what they do afterwards
Most user apps. require 95% of coding effort to provide a usable user interface and 5% effort on the algorithmic meat. The "afterwards" you allude to. So why do we still endure so much programming effort on the unimportant part? Because elegent algorithms require bullet proof and intuitive user interfaces or people won't use or buy your software. <snip> > GUI programs are less important now than they were a few years ago, > owing to the huge importance of the web and HTML. Now with html the programming load rises to about 99.8% effort for the user interface and 0.2% on the algorithmic core. All that coding effort wasted on a user interface that looks and works like crap. The top poster is quite correct to ask for a system like VB6 that banishes the problem of user interface coding to the trivial role it deserves. Why should a programmer waste even so much as 10% of his effort to throw together a standard interface with ordinary textboxes, labels, and option buttons? Over and over again? Thomas Bartkus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
