[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/17/2016 5:43 PM, David Froble wrote:
> 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?
>
> Ok, let me try explaining this way.
>
> Does any of these "new" "wizz-bang" methods have enough advantage for me
> to forget using EDT, which I pretty much got down to "muscle memory",
> and spend effort (don't know how much) learning something new?
>
> Key words are "enough advantage" ....

That will depend on some things:
- how much time you spend using an editor
- the complexity of the editing you do
- whether you work on other platforms as well
etc.

But let us randomly say that 50% of existing
VMS users and 100% of new VMS users would prefer
the new tools. Seems very relevant to me.

Arne