All- While y'all are sitting back too stuffed to move, and you know you should sit down at the computer but you can't actually bring yourself to do any real work, you might want to read a speech Charles Petzold (yes, *that* Charles Petzold) gave a year ago on various things entitled "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?" I certainly don't buy everything he has to say here (the thought of using Notepad as a development environment gives me the willies these days) but I found it entertaining and thought-provoking, particularly his thoughts on RAD environments.
"For an author who writes programming books, all this stuff presents a quandary. How do you write a programming tutorial? Do you focus on using Visual Studio to develop applications? Frankly, I found it very hard to write sentences like Now drag the button object from the tool box to your dialog box and still feel like I was teaching programming." "As Visual Studio is generating code, it is also erecting walls between that code and the programmer. Visual Studio is implying that this is the only way you can write a modern Windows or web program because there are certain aspects of modern programming that only it knows about. And Visual Studio adds to this impression by including boilerplate code that contains stuff that has never really been adequately discussed in the tutorials or documentation that Microsoft provides." http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
