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From: thorn@godot.radonc.unc.edu (Jesse Thorn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ Development Environments
Message-ID: <1142@godot.radonc.unc.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 89 19:26:02 GMT
Reply-To: thorn@godot.radonc.unc.edu (Jesse Thorn)
Organization: Radiation Oncology NCMH/UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
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It seems that developers spend a lot of time searching class definition
header files checking method prototypes, method and slot names,
etc. If they are working with a deeply nested object hierarchy this
could mean reams of hardcopy or many emacs buffers. It just gets
cumbersome unless you have an excellent memory.

What kind of tools or development environments are people using to
cope with these problems? In particular, I was wondering if there 
are any graphics-oriented tools that display class hierarchies and 
provide a "point-and-click" interface to class and method editors. 
Something along the lines of the NeXT Application Builder or, better yet, 
the old Xerox LOOPS class browser but for Unix/X Windows systems 
would be great.

Anyone care to comment on ParcPlace's ObjectWorks?

Jesse Thorn            
thorn@godot.radonc.unc.edu