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motm@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@y...> wrote:
> Ken -
>
> You can continue to check your "cranky old man hand-written" code in
> and out of SourceSafe without using VisualStudio. We use it at work
> to do just that. It's actually kind of a nice tool. We have a plugin
> that allows us to update our Linux servers from a Windoze server
> running the SS database.
SourceSafe is evil too; CVS on Linux is both better and free. (And if
you want something that is better still and you don't mind paying for
it then check out BitKeeper).
> VisualStudio is evil. It was bad enough when it was Visual C++, but
> it's way worse now. Push a wizard button and watch megabytes of code
> get generated, using templated classes that nobody can understand. I
> escaped two years ago and revel in my (comparative) freedom from
> MicroSloth.
I actually rather like VisualStudio - it's about the only really good
bit of software that Micros~1 ever wrote. It's arguably the best C++
environment around, though I realise that this isn't saying much; C++
is itself a manifestation of purest evil and for technical reasons you
can't write a decent IDE for it. (See IntelliJ-IDEA or just about any
enviroment for LISP for an example of an ∗advanced∗ IDE).
I agree that the Wizards are evil and should be avoided. I get the
impression that Ken would agree with that too :-)
(Currently I'm in the stone-knives-and-bear-skins environment of gcc,
gdb and vi: it feels like I'm living in the 70's, but at least I can
debug a remote app on the servers over a slow modem link. Visual C++
would seem like heaven right now, though).
Harry