<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 December 2011 20:09, Hans Uhlig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans.uhlig@teamaol.com">hans.uhlig@teamaol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 12/11/2011 1:26 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:<br>
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On 11/12/11 1:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:<br>
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On 12/10/2011 4:46 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:<br>
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I think either would be fine, but having to use the command line for<br>
anything on<br>
Windows is a no-no these days in terms of usability.<br>
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Since dmd is a command line tool anyway, why is it a usability problem<br>
to use dman?<br>
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Why do you think so many people ask for IDEs? :-)<br>
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Windows people are used to Visual Studio doing everything for them. Hit<br>
F7 to compile, F5 to run under debugger, click on lines to set breakpoints.<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>And they did a great job. Visual Studio is a fantastically productive coding environment.</div>