This statement calls attention to one of my long-standing irritations with software in general, and Code Delopment IDEs in particular. The irritation is what I call the all-or-nothing phenomenon.

Although I can relate to the musings of Dr. Mu (aka Phil), I do not agree that the concept of WYSIWYG is all bad. The notion that all code should be painstakingly 'hand crafted' is tenuous at best. The problem is, WYSIWYG tools tend to be 'all or nothing' ... that is to say, there are a lot of tedious minor tasks that I would not mind having 'wizards' or 'drag and drop' options for code generation. The problem is most tools want you to do *everything* inside the WYSIWYG, or they assume too much.

The bottom line: 'componentized' GUI interfaces are necessary. I should be able to use a GUI IDE the same way I use pipes and redirection in the shell. It's feasible, its doable, but certain people just don't seem to 'get it'.

It doesn't have to be this difficult people!!

In reply to Re^2: Perl/Tk WYSIWYG by dimar
in thread Perl/Tk WYSIWYG by gri6507

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