Re: Any tidbits?

["Dean, Robert" <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be generalizing to try to say "RDi is xx% faster."  It's
not really fair to do that, because everyone works differently 
and a tool that might only be 10% faster for me might be 100%
faster for you, or vice versa.

This makes it difficult to compute a hard and fast ROI, but I'd
say that's why they offer the trial version...so you can measure
for yourself.

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 4:02 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Any tidbits?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Buck
> > A question : anyone ever gone to the trouble of writing the 
> same code in SEU and RDi and comparing the time needed just to type?
>
> I am a green-screen RPG programmer.  That is, I do not do any 
> web/Java/PHP programming.  For what I do, WDSC is hands down 
> faster typing.  <tab> means TAB, and I can set my own tab 
> stops just like a real editor!  It makes D specifications go 
> like lightning!
>   --buck

I'd like to know how much faster. Managers want figures, not rough ideas. As the only regular user of WDSc in the shop. I'm stuck on a misfiring old V6.0 based on eclipse 3.1, I believe. Eclipse is the standard tool for our JAVA guys so they have a free version at 3.4. I say that comparing WDSC and SEU is like using block notes for JAVA instead of eclipse. Ok maybe I exaggerate a little. The next time I have a moan about it, I'd like to say something like "Rdi offers an x% increase in programmer production".