On 2017-11-30 11:46, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
Nonetheless, IMHO RAD is a great way to start programming, as you immediately and painlessly can see (visualize) what your "business
RAD should only be used for prototyping. ie: once the prototype is done and not needed, bin the code. And don't be fooled thinking small utility apps are great for RAD too. Once that utility get traction, feature get added, the thing grows like wild-fire and you are in a sh*t storm once again. Even "small" utilities can do with a good design and business logic separation.
It might sound harsh, but boy will you save yourself from headaches years down the line when your application has grown to multi-million lines of code.
[done ranting for now] Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
