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On 13 December 2011 21:50, Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12/12/11 6:09 PM, Hans Uhlig 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.
>>
>
> I agree that cmd sucks.
>
> I disagree that people use Visual Studio because cmd sucks.
>
> At home I'm a Mac user, but at work I use Visual Studio. I've used
> Eclipse, XCode, code blocks, vim+makefiles, and I can easily say that
> Visual Studio is far and away the best development environment in
> existence. Nothing even comes close to it.
>

+100 ;)
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