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> Could please someone from the Commercial Aisle comment on this?
> Which part is the biggest hindrance: the language, the framework,
> lack of "goodies", look-and-feel, or the documentation?
I think the language is fine, the documentation is "okay", but
the framework is rather bizarre (I've been using Oberon/F and
Blackbox for over 10 years, but there are aspects of the
framework that still are beyond my comprehension!). I also
would like to have more flexibility in the "look & feel"
area, so that my applications look more like I think they
should look like. GPCP and .NET address my framework
and look & feel concerns, but I had so many other issues
with this that I have just stuck with Blackbox. For those
of you who are interested, my issues with GPCP were that
the users need to have .NET installed on their computer,
the startup of my .NET apps took a long time (8 seconds
on my old 1Ghz computer), the compile/link/make process
seemed rather old-fashioned (back to command-line compilers),
the result of SYSTEM.ADR() is not guaranteed to be a
constant during your code's execution, and linking to existing
Fortran DLLs is not supported. Plus when I was porting
code over for testing I was finding a new compiler bug
almost every day -- not very encouraging, although I
suspect that all of those bugs are now fixed (since
I reported them all)
Marc
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