Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> What I say here also goes for Richard. I am aware that a lot of time >> has gone into learning these tools (20 years!). I am just saying that to >> use IDEs also requires effort. > > I spent 35+ hours/week for 6 months on VS2005. Is that not enough > time to learn it? >
I guess it is. >> Granted. But I am defending lowering the barrier for Ocaml use. > > If you are advocating IDE use for the purposes of making Ocaml > easier for newcomers then you are in a bit of a bind. The > people who need the IDE are the newcomers who are not capable > of writing one and the ones with sufficient experience to write > an Ocaml IDE are happy with what they have and are therefore > not interested in writing one Exactly! This is the reason why I sent the e-mail to this list in the first place. No IDE will be useful unless seasoned users are prepared to contribute to it. > (with the possible exception of > Jon Harrop). > Because he also thinks that such IDEs makes his life easier. I guess if the IDE was written in OCaml he would be an active contributor. :-) _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
