On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > I don't believe you can give a general rule. The tool must be appropriate > for the application. The word "programming" includes an universe of non > compatible things. Something like "mechanical design". Designing a watch is > something completing different than designing a monorail train. > > We used Delphi, and now use Lazarus to design the human interface for > automatic machines, where the visual part is the most important one. The RAD > approach is the most efficient and productive. But when we had to interface > the production data generated with company database, it turned out that one > had to write a lot of non-visual code, and we found that RAD approach would > just have confused things, leading to unreadable and inefficient code.
I believe RAD is the best way to code a GUI, but not to write the business rules. As you said, "...RAD approach would just have confused things, leading to unreadable and inefficient code". Best regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
