Wow. OK, please stop! I'm sorry I said "a pox on thee", and I was really joking about the voodoo cube.
10 minutes after I wrote that email I started feeling nauseous. 10 minutes later I was vomiting. I did a cycle of 5 throw-ups followed by 45 minutes of unconsciousness, repeated throughout the day. I probably threw up 30 times. I've NEVER felt this sick in my life. Now I've been OK for the past few hours, I think I survived. By "OK" I mean freezing and sweating at the same time, slightly nauseous, very weak, slightly delirious. But a heck of a lot better than all day. I didn't know RB had such good reverse mojo. It has clearly been demonstrated to me my pox is not accepted, and that there are far FAR worse things to do for 6 hours than re-type yesterdays work into a crappy IDE. Hopefully I'll never have to repeat todays events... -k. On 3/22/06, Ken Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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>
