On 6/15/2009 12:14 PM Michael Powe said...
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:34:04AM -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote:
I'm wondering if there might be documented benefits to migrating from my
horse and buggy. :)
Are you in a hurry to get somewhere? ;-)
If 20 LOC/day is average nowadays, how fast do you need to be going?
I recently worked on a module for a large existing Java application.
The module I wrote had to be plugged in to the existing code base. So
of course, I had to have all kinds of tie-ins to existing libraries
and classes. First, I couldn't run the full application, so I had to
rely on unit testing to verify my functionality. Second, I had to
connect to hundreds of classes inside the application. I'm not that
smart -- I could not have done it without NetBeans, which has
fantastic introspection and can tell me most of the ways I'm violating
protocol while I'm working.
This is a good use case. Unfortunately, I'm still supporting several
30-35 year old 250k line basic applications and associated glue apps
that don't play nice with modern tools. <sigh> And each time I've
considered switching (for the glue bits), the time to become productive
with a new tool was taking as long as the project estimated time to
implement and so it just hasn't happened.
I stubbed out a lot of stuff and prototyped in jEdit. But when it was
game on, I had to go to NB. It probably comes down to, How much stuff
can you carry in your head?
several 35 year old 250k line basic applications and associated glue
apps :) Also the names of my kids, but not always in the proper
one-to-one association. :))
Emile
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