Re: Visual Studio 2008

Hi Rob,

Rob Rothwell wrote:

> It's hard to fight the lure of drag-and-drop with a Smalltalk learning 
> curve!
> 
> That's why I still feel like a framework that could generate 
> maintainable code, at least to get people started, would be useful.  The 
> would see the relationship between placing the button and the generated 
> code easily because there would be so little code to generate!

Let we have this in mind and let we start looking around is such a tool 
already exist to just adopt it. Dreamweaver is such, but when I looked 
it last time, I didn't find a way to integrate Aida on it.

Has anyone any other idea how to ad visual building on top of Aida but 
without loosing all programming comfort Aida offers?

Janko

> 
> The code generated by other tools seems very hard to follow, or is not 
> given to you at all (VB, for example).
> 
> I've mentioned your success before, but will pass this along in your own 
> voice!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek <at> eranova.si 
> <mailto:janko.mivsek <at> eranova.si>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Rob,
> 
>     As you already mention it is a long-term mantability and
>     extendability of Smalltalk systems what should count, not short-term
>     flashy, cool painting of your apps with Visual Studio, which soon
>     start to became spaghetti code and you need to start rewriting them
>     again. That's what M$ like a lot of course ...
> 
>     On the contrary Smalltalk (and Aida) apps are almost eternal, they
>     can stand years and years of continuous change, yet stay
>     maintainable. Let me just point to 10 years anniversary of longest
>     living Aida app: a Gas Billing System for out National Gas Company,
>     billing all the gas in Slovenia:
>     http://www.aidaweb.si/news/anniversaries-records.html
> 
>     Best regards
>     Janko
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si
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