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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:36:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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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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