I am sure your application is awesome... I love coding too.  It's 
satisfying.  The problem is;  in business, the value of a single coder is 
diminished.  coders should write application that ...write applications - 
their productivity would increase exponentially... and quality control would 
be improved.  Their skills would be extended to others... and complexities 
would be hidden.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ted Spencer
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:43 PM
To: futurebasic@...
Subject: [FB] X [FB] re: Pics of robert and rants


On 10 Jul, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Laurent Siebenmann wrote:
>
> To my mind, the Mac suffers, in its programming
> environment, from both paradign drift and excessive
> complexity. The existence of the individual programmer
> is threatened.

Good point, Dr. Siebenmann!

As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short, as evidenced by the recent 
execution of my first useful Mac app in several years. It's laughable when 
seen through the eyes of a Real Programmer, but it does a fairly serious job 
that needs to be done, and looks tolerably decent from the street. When its 
antiquated Carbon heart requires an infusion of Cocoa as it surely will at 
some point in the not-too-distant future... What then? I certainly won't be 
jumping head-first into Xcode, 'cause my head's too thick to fit through the 
hole, and it's getting thicker.

No one in a boardroom is going to spare a second's thought for the handful 
of Macs that might be pressed into service for these esoteric jobs, or the 
handful of programmers who might make it happen. Does there need to be a 
spot - or a means - for those of us who occasionally get an eye on a 
destination but quake in terror at the thought of the journey? What if we 
can't find, or afford, someone who enjoys the journey?

I've just paid several hundreds of dollars for a Windows 7 upgrade so 
Freescale's perfectly horrid CodeWarrior (microcomputer) Development Suite 
would run on the brand-new computer I just bought, with Windows 7 installed. 
I've just bought a very nasty-tasting slab of misery. I, for one, would pay 
that, in a heartbeat, for an FB that let me produce gunky apps that are 
likely to run into the future.

Dontcha hate it when geezers start to rant?

Ted


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