Damn you REALbasic. Damn you. Never before has a programming language given me nightmares, but last night I had a GroundHogDay (Bill Murray) type dream. Why? Because RB cannot even save a freakin' file, so I have to code the same thing over and over and over again.
I put a pox on thee. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm done with this email, I'm going to try to find a green cube and I'm going to stick pins in it. This company shouldn't die as they have potential, but they need to understand the pain they put some programmers through. Worst of all, there is no good reason for this pain. Why, or why, oh WHY was this decision made? Which engineer or manager decided to a) use a proprietary binary file format and b) force users to use their editor? You don't need to find out who made the decision, but you need to look at the process that allowed such a stupid, evil, short sighted, limiting, and dumb decision to get made, and fix the process. 99.9% of all other programming languages store code in a plain file. Why did you try to improve on this? 99% of other IDE software allows you to use another editor, you are not forced to their IDE. Why do you insist on locking me in? A text editor with a save function is one of the most basic programs after Hello World. It is taught in hundreds of learn-to-program books and CS 101 courses. Yet you cannot even provide me with a text editor that can reliably save text. Why not?!?!? It is very nice of you to provide an IDE. Thank you. But why have you locked me into it, when it cannot perform the most simple of tasks: editing and saving text. The RB language is nice, but not worth the hassle. Due to the IDE I'm evaluating Qt, where I can use whatever IDE I like: emacs, BBedit, Eclipse, *OR* the Qt editor. If Qt takes 20% longer to develop the same project it will be worth it to me, as the RB IDE retards me by 50%. -k. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
