From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 2 20:40:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B0A37B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from miguel (miguel.reyes.somos.net [192.168.10.5]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA17299; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:39:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Message-Id: <200106030339.XAA17299@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Chris Fedde" , "j mckitrick" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 23:41:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;1) In-Reply-To: <200105260607.f4Q674806775@fedde.littleton.co.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: is c-forge worth the trouble? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 May 2001 00:07:04 -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2001 18:29:08 +0100 j mckitrick wrote: > +------------------ > | > | or am i better of using standard console tools? > | jcm > +------------------ >My self? I usually need a pretty good reason to part with >good cash for software. Many programs have a trial mode, hopefully long enough so people can see if it fits their needs. >I find that almost nothing lives up to it's marketing claims. I don't know if it runs on FreeBSD, but if Kylix is anything at all as good as Delphi, that is probably the best tool around. Some people may not like it is Object Pascal, but for those of us who have never liked C/C++/Java Delphi/Kylix is an excellent alternative. >YMMV but for me four or five xterms running gcc, gdb, make, man, bash with >lots of command history, nvi with a few good macros, and ctags It's like mail clients. Sure a text based MUA works, but there are so many niceties that can be had with a graphical program.. For instance completion is one of my biggest favorites. Specially when it works to complete variable names and methods of a variable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message