> From: [email protected] > > You are probably right, but like I said in another response, maybe my > brain is too "fixed" to using words like make, cc, g++, etc. rather than > the motor motion of point and click. > > That being said, I like word processors, spread sheets, cad programs, > email, the web, all the things that you do all the time. Why does > software development need to be so different?
I'm not grasping what your objection is. It seems like you want things to be done more through point-and-click than through typing letters. And yet you list e-mail, for which I use RMAIL on Emacs, and thus can do 100% of what I need through various keystrokes. Similarly, the one time I had to put serious amounts of data into a spreadsheet, I carefully memorized the various shortcuts that could be used for that task so I could keep one hand on the page I was transcribing from and the other hand could type TAB, DOWN ARROW, RETURN, etc. to set the fields on the line to the right values. I think the core of the problem may be that programming requires entering a lot of high-entopy text, and the bandwidth of typing is a lot higher than that of point-and-click. You really don't want to specify which variable's value you want to look at by picking it off a popup menu. Dale _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
