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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A plea for a Structured Objective-C code browser in 2.0
Message-ID: <285@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:40:29 GMT
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Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1990Sep29.170939.14728@santra.uucp> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:

>This decides it for me. I no longer want to develop software for the NeXT.
>I know this is a religious issue, but I absolutely refuse to use Emacs.
>It doesn't work the way I do and I don't think I'm going to change the
>way I work or take the time to reprogram Emacs to do what I want.

Obviously you've never actually done any development on a NeXT.  Regardless
of whether you use Emacs or not, you can get work done in half or one
third the time it takes you on any other platform (in my experience).  You
don't have to use Emacs.

Sure, the debugging cycle could use some improvement, but even doing it
"the hard way" with gdb and Edit, it is much better than most environments.

And never underestimate the value of Digital Librarian.  Just wait for
the first time you look up something in the Librarian and it opens up
the documentation right to a page with some example code on it, you copy
the code out of the documentation, paste it into your source code, tweak
a few of the names, compile, and it works the first time.

You shouldn't decide you "no longer want to develop software for the NeXT"
on the basis of a few postings to the net.  There are a few ups and downs,
but unless not changing the way you work is more important to you than
writing excellent applications, you should give it a try.

Just my opinions, naturally.  Your mileage may vary.

Glenn

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