Re: Semi OT: Rant

Rich K wrote:
....
Again, I see this kind of comment. The old days. John Kaster asked me
what I meant when I mentioned the "old days". Can anyone here explain
it, I can't put my finger on it.

Take Delphi 5. You put the CD in the computer and start the installation. No activation. No problems if you have to reinstall it the 10th time in 6 years, noone to ask, noone to call. You are Germand and need an english version for some international projects? No problem, it's on the second CD, you don't have to pay extra.

If you ask me, the goold old days would be:

- no activation, or at least only one giving you a code you can print and use over and over again

- _all_ language versions in the box, not only english or german

- a help that really works

- a IDE that starts as fast as the hd let it

- no hourglass or coffee pause ecept for the function where it's impossible to make it much faster (eg. a full build of a projet group)

- Books! Hey, I pay quite some money, and I like them as reference.

- no-nonsense

I want a tool. Something I can use without thinking about it. Lean and mean, and giving me the ability to run circles around whole development departments.

But if I have to wait some seconds to switch from A to B, the whole flow is gone, I am only half as productive, even if math says that I only lose 5 minutes a day. These 5 minutes, strategically placed over the day, can drop your work to near zero. And every moment I work with the IDE, every time I want to switch to something because I want to change it _now_ is such a place.

Ralf

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