Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/06/04/10:36:48
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> Well I certainly wouldn't mind buying a product that crashes several times
> a day if it's learning curve is less steep.
What learning curve? You mean, people are actually _learning_ Windows??
> But you must admit that it plays a *major* role...fre ex just see why many
> people prefer using RHGDB instead of GDB :(
How many, indeed? I don't think we had a poll, so there are no hard
facts upon which to build opinions.
> > Btw, I don't know when did you last work in a large corporation, but
> > where I work, secretaries run to your truly asking to solve problems
> > with Word. So much for user-friendliness...
>
> Well I don't think that they bother to have a look at the
> extensive documentation..the same way that many people (including me
> sometimes) don't bother reading the DJGPP FAQ first before posting ;-)
There's a *hude* difference: DJGPP's docs at least say something useful,
if you care to sit down for a few seconds and look it up in the index.
Word's docs don't say anything except trivia ("If you want to open a
file, click "File->Open"..."). I know: I actually read it.
> Yes...but it shows that windoze GUI is indeed user friendly if GNOME too
> borrows on it...
This proves nothing except the fact that people expect a certain GUI, and
everybody is eager to let them have it. It says nothing about wuality,
only about what people are used to.
> > > for example I would prefer A "inferiror" product with a GUI based debugger
> > > than a "awesome?" one with a *!*!! command line based debugger...
> >
> > Me too, but what's your point? Both Windows and Linux satisfy this
> > requirement.
>
> No I was commenting about the sad lack (I may be wrong here) of a IDE
> based debugger for GDB...I commented on this in another post...
I replied that there are plenty of GUI front ends to GDB that run on X.
You only need to find which ones suits you best.
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