http://cs.ua.edu/~SECSE08/Papers/Danis.pdf
Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > >I somewhat agree (as difficult as that is for me). In today's world, it > is expected that a worker will just walk in off the street and have the > "intuitive" knowledge of how to use computers. As much as I dislike it > personally, z/OS really needs the "new look" interface to present to the > end users, and even programmers. I wonder if anybody has done a study of > productivity between "old style" development using ISPF and > edit-compile-test versus using the RD/z Eclipse based software. > > Of course they have...many times. And they all show that IDEs are more > productive, FVSO "more productive": programs get done faster. Not > necessarily better, but faster. And it's a positive feedback loop: once the > IDE is all anyone has used, old-school programming becomes unthinkable. > > And that's how we get the instability that is Windows. Not even > necessarily the Microsoft end of it: a near-infinite number of vendors with > an infinite number of monkeys banging away at their IDEs, producing > products that sort of work, but perhaps destabilize the underlying OS (or > Office, or some other product) may be the real cause. > > Of course this is an oversimplification, but when you make programming so > simple, even a kid can do it, you get programs written by kids. > > Even open source, for all its benefits, isn't a real solution: look at the > plugin-container hack Firefox has resorted to. Is that strictly because > Flash is so unstable? Chrome doesn't seem to have any significant Flash > problems (or maybe I just use Firefox more). I'm on the Beta channel of > Firefox right now because the production version was hanging my Windows 7 > machines (maybe that's been fixed by now, but it *was* true). Worse, I had > no real way to debug it. > > OK, so I sound like a cranky old fart. If the shoe fits... > -- > ...phsiii > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
