Visual Studio Corrupts Your Mind!
Charles Petzold's "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?" is similar to Rinky Dink Software: the tools try to be too helpful and ends up restricting us (and preventing us from excelling).
There are drawbacks of working with a blank slate of coding since one has to do everything (remembering the class/function names, correct parameters and correct syntax), but then anything is possible (including wrong functions/classes)!
Just looking at Stagecast shows the extreme of graphical programming only: even though the core was written in Java, one doesn't have the option of adding code or even changing the core functions (as far as I can tell).
For me, I want as much control as I want to put in (even if I have to program at the machine (bit) level) but I want to work at as high level as possible (like the back of the napkin sketching) so I can focus on the "fun" stuff rather than bit pushing. I thought expensive tools like i-Logix Statemate would fill that need but it only does the high end and could not deal with low level user changes (the bane of all CASE tools).
There are drawbacks of working with a blank slate of coding since one has to do everything (remembering the class/function names, correct parameters and correct syntax), but then anything is possible (including wrong functions/classes)!
Just looking at Stagecast shows the extreme of graphical programming only: even though the core was written in Java, one doesn't have the option of adding code or even changing the core functions (as far as I can tell).
For me, I want as much control as I want to put in (even if I have to program at the machine (bit) level) but I want to work at as high level as possible (like the back of the napkin sketching) so I can focus on the "fun" stuff rather than bit pushing. I thought expensive tools like i-Logix Statemate would fill that need but it only does the high end and could not deal with low level user changes (the bane of all CASE tools).
posted by DannyHSDad at
7:44 PM
