[Info-vax] improving EDT

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 18 November 2016 10:43:51 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
> Den 2016-11-17 kl. 23:43, skrev David Froble:
> > 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...
> 
> Another thing... I do not think that the new group that VSI is putting
> together in Sweden to specifically look at new development tools, open
> source and similar stuff, are specificaly targeted at you and me.
> VSI are hiring new/your people right out of high-school for this.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this group is not looking at your specific needs, David.
> 
> You must let go with your self-centric view on VMS development and try
> to look at the larger picture. Or don't, it doesn't matter much. :-)

Hiring new people straight out of school is good. Back in the day,
Sweden used to have a VMS community and some of them may still be
around and some of them may even have some worthwhile experience
of things non-VMS. 

These folk, the ones that have been around a bit and seen the
reality as well as they hype, may be interesting people to have on
the team formally or informally, as they have experience of other
people's mistakes on both sides of the fence.

TLDR; Other people's mistakes are good things to learn from. Use
them well.