Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:36:15 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Internal compiler error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.