[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/17/2016 5:40 PM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:27:45 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
>> But, we are only talkning about giving (new) programmers
>> on VMS a decent environment to work in. I do not understand
>> why you drag clouds and all that stuff into the picture.
>>
>> I do not understand your post. Are you saying that editing code in
>> EDT/TPU is "better" then editing code in one of todays popular IDE's?

>
> Better for who, in order to achieve what, exactly?
>
> Someone very familiar with VMS can be very productive on
> VMS, as is. What's the point of forcing folk like that to
> work unproductively in an unfamiliar IDE (especially in
> cases where VMS is still seen as a limited lifetime system)?

I don't think anyone is suggesting removing TPU or EDT from VMS.

Even though I suspect that a lot of those familiar with VMS
would be glad for the new tools if they spent some time
getting used to them.

> On the other hand there are lots of people out there who
> are familiar with stuff like Notepad++ or Eclipse or [etc]
> and it might not be a bad idea for someone (doesn't have
> to be VSI) to put some thought into making these folks life
> more comfortable and productive when working in and with
> the VSIVMS environment.

> More and better such stuff (or at least more visibility for
> decent stuff that exists) would probably be welcome.

Yep.

Arne