Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:31:18 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960316223039.2997A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Thats the 60k line of codes question: What do we need to entice people > > to write applications and/or can someone come up with a long list > > of applications so that when new volunteers come on board they > > could at least have an idea of whats needed? > > > > Amancio > > A GUI builder so that all they have to do is fill in case statements > with calls to their code. > > A decent visual debugger. For instance, in the MS debugger, if you > let the pointer sit on a variable on the screen for a second, it will > display the value of the variable. > > The ability to click on compilation error mesages and go to the offending > line of code (with the offending portion(s) of the statement highlighted. > > A "colorized" editor (a friend of mine keeps threatening to "colorize" > vi ... he must have Ted Turner in his family tree somewhere. 8-)). > > > A market for the finished products so that the investment/reward ratio > is somewhere near that for Windows. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Ok, ok - I'll try to do what I can. I have a feeling I will learn many things I haven't otherwise. Could some just fish out a reference to a real RDBMS (no toys - I mean something like Oracle, Gupta, Informix, etc.) running on FreeBSD so that I would not have to throw it out of my server and replace it with Windows NT or OS/2 when the money for the database arrives (and it will). Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)
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