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Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems [message #82370 is a reply to message #82332]

Sat, 08 December 2012 10:57

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On 12/4/12 10:07 AM, Paul van Delst wrote:
> What is this "Workbench" thing people keep talking about? :o)
>
> It's probably an obvious sign of my old-fartness (what with being a
> computer-y type back in the 70's when compucolors were the go, and
> various PDP 11-whatsits and DEC-whosamis in the 80's) but I've never
> warmed either to the idea or execution of IDEs.
>
> I have always found them to be extremely limiting compared to just using
> the various tools as needed and are supplied on a regular system. And,
> when they don't work right you've got an additional degree of freedom in
> your bug detection, to say nothing of the time wasted spent figuring out
> why feature X of the IDE isn't working right (probably because your Java
> RTE install is busted, or old, or from the wrong vendor...).
>
> But that's just me. I guess I'm a dyed-in-the-wool command line guy (or
> is *nix my IDE? Hmmm....)

Not just you... I'm a much younger fart, but I couldn't agree more!

-Jeremy.

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		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: David Fanning on Thu, 06 December 2012 10:21
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: Mark Piper on Thu, 06 December 2012 10:17
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 December 2012 08:13
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 December 2012 08:07
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 December 2012 07:59
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 December 2012 07:49
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 December 2012 07:40
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 December 2012 07:16
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 December 2012 06:51
		Re: Some IDL8.2.1 Workbench related problems By: Jeremy Bailin on Sat, 08 December 2012 10:57

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