RE: Block Commenting
- Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 05, 2003
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Ray Smith wrote: > An IDE isn't going to make developing programs quicker if the > underlying language is missing features or libraries. > E.g. If you need to use a Web Services object in Euphoria, or connect > to a database that no one has written a library for ... a good IDE > isn't going to be of much help. But it is a BIG help when you do have all these things in libraries and you want to manage all those libraries. <snip> > So some tasks in WinDev are impossible as well :) ... and still it is regarded as a very professional development environment, capable of very stable and feature rich programs that are used in enterprises all over the world. > The user base has a huge impact when much of the functionality > required comes from people other than the main developer. > If you only had "Euphoria" that was downloaded from RDS to use, with > no libraries from the archive etc ... Euphoria would be a bit of a > white elephant!! I must agree with that. It would mean that you have to write a lot of stuff yourself... as we did with WinDev (as there is only a small bit of auxilliary functions available in comparison with Euphoria). > The user base has as much (if not more) impact on how successful > a language will be. Especially for the small and open source > languages. The success of a language is also depending on the willingness of companies to addopt it for serious projects. And that is very much depending on how good the language can be integrated in a controllable workflow: read IDE Hans Peter Willems