Re: Re: Gobo with EiffelStudio 5.4

Peter Gummer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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




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