On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Stefan wrote:
While the fact if RB is written in RB isn't of much importance
for me (and I still believe, that RB isn't the best suited languages
the implement a compiler/IDE), I'd like to know, if the number of
bugs/problems significantly tends to go down or up.
And ideas?
The IDE is more complex that it has ever been. So I suspect on that
basis alone, regardless of language used to implement it, that the
number of bugs would go up. The thought, I believe, for using RB to
write the RB IDe was that this way bugs that end users experience
would also be experienced by the REAL developers and that would lead
to these bugs being identified and fixed sooner.
It's one aspect of the whole "eat your own dog food" philosophy.
If Oracle Corp were running Oracle Financials using Sybase or MS SQL
would it give you confidence in Oracle as a database for running
Oracle Financials ?
Or if MS ran their operations using Oracle instead of MS SQL Server ?
Being able to write the RB IDE in RB says something about what kinds
of things are possible.
And, I'd suspect that at some point a compiler could be built in RB
for RB.
RB is being used o write the RB IDE, but it's not, from what I know,
the 2006 IDE that they are using.
It will be a big step forward when they move to using the current
release version to write the next version.
Then the bugs you and I experience they will as well.
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