more intuitive visual interface

[bretzel]

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:12, you wrote:
> Hi All
>
> It's nice to have IDEs and stuff that you can use to pick and choose
> objects and widgets and things. Just being able to do a pick and plunk
> however doesn't make you a programmer. The danger is that in the long
> run you don't know what you're doing or why. Also, it's much harder to
> debug things when you didn't write the code. Last but not least, using
> objects that are written to be general purpose and have feature you
> don't need  and don't use tends to produce bloatware.
>
> There is a happy medium somewhere that eases the task of programming but
> still requires a programmer to do some work. I'm sure there are various
> arguments for different points of view. Personally, if I wanted to do
> Microslop I'd be washing Windows.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth.
>
> John

I also wanna put my 2 cents with a concrete (anecdote ? - sorry for my 
english ) to support what John is saying: 

Two years ago I was an employee of a hightech company, they hired a 
programmer in the R&D department. I often spoke to that guy during breaks.
He was telling loudly that he knows C++ Builder very well - and it was true. 
With C++Builder, he made several interprocess comm. over TCP/IP apps projects
 before he went to our company. And one day, he went to me asking for my help 
because he didn't know at all how to make something very basic in C language 
under MSDOS ( djgpp ). One element of the solution to his problem was to 
create an array of pointers to functions... He didn't have the programming 
experience ( and probably the skill ) to find and inmplement that by himself.

And... one day, I didn't see him at his workplace. He was gone... My employer 
fired him ...

Bretzel

>
> Catalin wrote:
> > I work with some visual tools (like delphi, CBuilder) and it seems
> > very easy to to put the controls on the forms just dragging them from
> > the component tab.This feature it is something nice and makes
> > developer work more easy (he don't have to see how to implement the
> > controls, he just write the code for what to do that control).If it's
> > possible to work on this thing it will be nice. I see an
> > implementation of this feature on VDKBuilder and I hope it can be
> > implement it here.Thank you very much.  A Linux Developer
>
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