Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Mark Wilson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What's the point of CodeWarrior ?? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:47:32 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <6ovvu9$4609@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <01bdb2aa$9ddaf980$f2e832a2@gbain.wav.scee.sony.co.uk> <35B33557.10D7DA9D@easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: userm015.uk.uudial.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 >My thoughts exactly. Everyone says 'The IDE sucks' etc but NOBODY SAYS WHY!!! I think the IDE definitely does not suck, for >the reasons I outlined earlier. > OK, first of all, I would never say "The IDE sucks" because it's a horrid Americanism ;-) The editor is TERRIBLE. Can't mark a column of text. No keystroke macros. Can't search & replace over a marked block. The project manager is OK. Actually quite good, if I'm being honest. Window update is slow and messy. The debugger is useful, but utterly untrustworthy when it comes to displaying variables. The amount of time I've wasted because CW is telling me that variables have incorrect values, when they don't really, amounts to... well, lots. >*Everyone* who uses/likes Codewarrior comes up with at least half a dozen reasons why they use it and like it. And *nobody* >who says it is crap can come up with *one good reason* why! I think it's just 'cos they can't be arsed to spend a bit of >time getting to know it. > Several reasons have been put forward as to why it's not very good, but you don't consider them good reasons. Just for the record, I'm sort of on the fence with CW, I use it, because frankly programming using DOS tools is a pain, and belongs to the dark ages. Mark