Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What's the point of CodeWarrior ?? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:07:25 +0100 Organization: philg@nospam.easynet.co.uk Lines: 35 Message-ID: <35B3956B.BFC61CE9@nospam.easynet.co.uk> References: <01bdb2aa$9ddaf980$f2e832a2@gbain.wav.scee.sony.co.uk> <35B33557.10D7DA9D@easynet.co.uk> <6ovvu9$4609@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: philg@nospam.easynet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: philg.easynet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mark Wilson wrote: > >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. That's two reasons. I don't think these make it a terrible editor. What about balancing your curly brackets and your parentheses for you - or being able to double click on a curly bracket to select the whole section - quite useful I find. > The project manager is OK. Actually quite good, if I'm being honest. > > Window update is slow and messy. Hmm. sometimes. The Mac version is better than the Win 95 one. > 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. Are you sure its CW that's at fault, or is it your code ;) Phil