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Re: Simple GUI question [message #34796 is a reply to message #34793]

Fri, 18 April 2003 11:31

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Pavel Romashkin (pavel_romashkin@hotmail.com) writes:

> Oh come on. Nobody needs to *start* IDL programming in the widget_object
> world. This is the easiest way to scare off new users with "difficulty"
> of using IDL. Not every program must be reuseable, some are ok just
> doing what they are designed to do.

My grandmother used to tell me, "If you start well, you end
well." Cobbling programs together works, I don't deny that.
I'm just saying they don't work for very long and they get
new programmers into bad habits.

God knows, there are plenty of bad programs out there.
(Some on my web page, as I was just discovering.) But
it doesn't take *that* much longer to learn to do it
right, and it pays off in spades down the road.

But I'm just trying to raise the general level of
IDL competence, Pavel, not pick a fight with you.
As I'm well aware, you have the vast majority of
IDL programmers on your side in this one. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Simple GUI question By: R.Bauer on Sat, 19 April 2003 01:10
		Re: Simple GUI question By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 April 2003 14:00
		Re: Simple GUI question By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 18 April 2003 12:54
		Re: Simple GUI question By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 April 2003 11:31
		Re: Simple GUI question By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 18 April 2003 10:20
		Re: Simple GUI question By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 April 2003 09:54
		Re: Simple GUI question By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 18 April 2003 08:55
		Re: Simple GUI question By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 April 2003 08:02

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