who's out there?

[Dan Shafer]

I had lunch today with a good friend who is a serious Java gear-head.

He says the IDE he uses -- Eclipse (which is open source) -- has  
dozens of bugs that require knowledgeable workarounds. "Any  
programmer worth his or her salt knows that tiptoeing around these  
land mines goes with the territory," he claims.

I think the real problem with Rev is its schizophrenia: it's a fairly  
serious developer IDE that tries also to be usable by and accessible  
to people with little or no programming training and experience.  
Those folks don't have the high level of tolerance for bugs and  
quirks that professionals do. They expect things like the IDE to  
actually work.

Strange idea, I know.

dan

On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Jon,
>
> I wrote a succinct reply to this bug, which if you adhere to, will  
> solve this problem. Did you take notice?
>
> While it doesn't excuse the bug, it does show that if you have a  
> bit of prior knowledge you can easily sidestep it. IMO, finding  
> problems with no known fixes are much more critical than ones which  
> can be fixed.
>
> best,
>
> Chipp
>
> Jon wrote:
>
>
>> I'd say when an IDE simply disappears from the screen when you try  
>> to click on the Files menu;
>>
>
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