On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote:
> On 2015-10-13 17:35, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> <snip> > I see no harm in encouraging people to just continue doing what >> they've been enjoying for decades: making tools to help their work >> and sharing them with others. >> > > Indeed - there is no harm at all - it is actually quite important. I > wasn't implying that it shouldn't be encouraged... > > All of the tools I've referred to - Mark Weider's, Bjornke's, Geoff's, >> Peter's, and others' - exist. Why not have more? Why not have a >> convenient launcher for them? >> > > Great - how do you ensure that Mark's tools don't interfere with Geoff's > so users can use them side-by-side? > > If every toolmaker has to take into account every other toolmaker's 'way > of doing things' you end up with a situation where one individual who wants > to write a tool needs to learn about everybody else's if they want to > distribute it for the benefit of all. I've never found this to be the case. I have never had someone report a bug to me because some other tool interfered with Navigator, or because Navigator tripped up someone else's tool. > Indeed - advocacy and implementation are two entirely separate things > though - which is perhaps why no such widespread 'lightweight IDE system' > has appeared (to my knowledge at least). > > And there is one salient aspect: neither of us is describing an IDE >> that exists today. >> > > I cannot agree there. You may be describing an IDE which does not exist > today - some sort of mystical entity which will just appear naturally out > of a lot of people playing around in a sandpit. Unfortunately, I don't have > much confidence in chaos producing anything in any particularly useful > timeframe (the mathematician in me screams that the numbers just don't add > up in that regard). > I think Navigator is useful. I've used it in place of everything except the script editor and the dictionary for over ten years. Let a thousand flowers bloom. >> > > Indeed - a thousand flowers blooming can be a truly breathtaking sight. > > However, it is much less amazing if those thousand flowers are dotted > around the world individually, not being able to be brought together > because they cannot co-exist within the same climate, or in the same soil. Again, unless I'm misunderstanding you, this isn't accurate -- Navigator happily co-exists with every tool I know. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode