Re: New sections to the Standard Pascal website

On 2008-05-06, thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Not every programming task is a math problem. (G)UI, input validation,
data
>> im****t/ex****t and businesslogic take a non insignificant part of the
part
>> too.
>
> I was speaking of a bigger project where I was part of
> (and this is not the only example I was involved).
> Dozens of people working for years. Some design decisions
> (done by managers) lead to loss of "productivity" which
> was much bigger than what an IDE could improve in
> productivity:

(snip)

Well, sure. Maybe those are even worse then when I would be using
punchcards, but that doesn't mean I must use punchcards for everything

> design decisions which lead to a productivity loss.

Probably, but no reason to increase your spent time further
beyond these (externally created) losses.