Re: Re: Gobo with EiffelStudio 5.4
Peter Gummer <[email protected]>
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On 12/08/2004, at 11:35 AM, Franck Arnaud wrote: > Gobo users are likely to be somewhat experienced programmers, > and with documentation I don't think it would be difficult > for them. It's the lack of a tutorial-style doc that's the > problem I think. Agreed, Franck. That's exactly what I'm hoping to encourage :-) > GUI tools are often deficient in in-depth > documentation, because while the GUI itself can make a > good quick-ref doc, programmers often neglect to do the > proper doc, which for non-trivial programs is important. Yes. One thing that annoys me is when I'm working with a nice, intuitive GUI, but then when I go to the documentation in search of some in-depth information I discover that it just restates the obvious. > The good news is that if you go past that, you're > done with most of the ugly stuff, it does not get worse > afterwards. Yes, thanks for telling me that. It's encouraging. Today I'm feeling like most of it is making sense. > > I don't care about the other compilers. > > Yes but we do, and of our users who also don't care, many > use the other compilers so ideally we should have something > that works smoothly for all single-compiler users, which is > more work than just supporting EiffelStudio. Indeed. It might be of use to me one day too (I have an idea for a little project that would probably require SmartEiffel). - Peter Gummer ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/saFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [email protected] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gobo-eiffel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/