Subj : Re: Anyone home??
To   : Thomas W. Mueller
From : Scott Adams
Date : Tue May 22 2001 03:15 pm

`07*** Quoting Thomas W. Mueller from a message to Scott Adams ***`07

TWM> Hello Scott.

TWM> 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?
TWM> Do I sound that young? No, I started out with the Turbo Pascal 3.0 "ID
TWM> on a Mac 2e (I think it was that one, but I don't really know, it wasn
TWM> my own box).


     hEH...Yeah...remeber Turtle Graphics Up 10 Right 10 Down 10 Left 10 Up 10 
ohhh..a 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.
TWM> As I said: I know the text mode IDEs from Borland as well as the one o
TWM> Virtual Pascal which is based on these and they are good. I just think
TWM> that Delphi is better. ;-)

     I'm sure it is I just don't use it enough at home (only at work 90% more 
than I do at home).  So as far as fun coding undecided here.

 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 :)
TWM> But that is excacly why I like Delphi: I don't need the mouse very oft
TWM> (unless I am doing UI design). Almost everything can be done without i
TWM> It is a matter of learning the keyboard shortcuts of course.

TWM> Thomas


Yeah even then I just don't like working in windoze period.  I mean my main 
coding machine I'm in dos 95% of the time including to write documents and such 
:)


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