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Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 10:39:11 PST 2011


On 12 December 2011 20:09, Hans Uhlig <hans.uhlig at teamaol.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/2011 1:26 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/11 1:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/10/2011 4:46 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think either would be fine, but having to use the command line for
>>>> anything on
>>>> Windows is a no-no these days in terms of usability.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since dmd is a command line tool anyway, why is it a usability problem
>>> to use dman?
>>>
>>
>> Why do you think so many people ask for IDEs? :-)
>>
>> Windows people are used to Visual Studio doing everything for them. Hit
>> F7 to compile, F5 to run under debugger, click on lines to set
>> breakpoints.
>>
>>
> That's because cmd sucks. MS Powershell isn't much better. I have to use
> mintty just to be able to have a sane environment. Linux is a very shell
> oriented OS still even with Kde and Gnome. Microsoft did everything in its
> power to kill off the shell for "useability" reasons.
>

And they did a great job. Visual Studio is a fantastically productive
coding environment.
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