Subj : Anyone home??
To   : Scott Adams
From : Thomas W. Mueller
Date : Tue May 22 2001 12:32 pm

Hello Scott.

20 May 01 03:13, you wrote to me:

 SA>> Yeah delphi is bulky...cumbersome....a WINDOWS IDe (Yuck)
 TWM>> I love the Delphi IDE! Mind you, it is not perfect, but there
 TWM>> are a lot of things I always miss as soon as I have to use
 TWM>> something else or - even worse - a simple editor.
 SA> Oh yes for GUI its great.  However for big projects and the like that
 SA> may not per se use GUI heavilly...nah But I guess you grew up with
 SA> the IDE?
Do I sound that young? No, I started out with the Turbo Pascal 3.0 "IDE" on a 
Mac 2e (I think it was that one, but I don't really know, it wasn't my own 
box).

 SA> I grew up with TP's IDE then bp so obviously prefer that only by
 SA> nature of first use.  I'm sure if I started with delphi I would do
 SA> delphi that way.
As I said: I know the text mode IDEs from Borland as well as the one of Virtual 
Pascal which is based on these and they are good. I just think that Delphi is 
better. ;-)

 SA>> I just wish I'd ever get used to USING delphi...growing up on tp
 SA>> and bp7 and such :)
 TWM>> You know that the IDE supports the "classic" keyboard layout? I
 TWM>> would have some trouble if that wasn't possible. ;-)
 SA> The keys and such are simple its just having to reach for a mouse to
 SA> code every 2 seconds is annoying.  I can program in bp hours without
 SA> touching a mouse unless its testing my software :)
But that is excacly why I like Delphi: I don't need the mouse very often 
(unless I am doing UI design). Almost everything can be done without it. It is 
a matter of learning the keyboard shortcuts of course.

Thomas

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