Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
Gordon..
lets face it and ive worked with code wizards many times in my life (i'm not one...lol.).
every dev tool/compiler has its potential problems...because the underlying OS eg win or mac os or whatever is the controller...ie 'big daddy'..lol.....like a boss in a workplace. every tool has its plusses and minuses.
Definitely not a correction.

The difficulty in my mind with RADs is that they form an abstraction over and above the machine/OS to make access to the functions of that machine from a "higher level". But RADs are "middle management" that sometimes is radically changed, or even removed completely. Sometimes they stop supporting features one needs, because nobody else is using them so they're not worth supporting. All of a sudden the RAD no longer delivers what one needs and sometimes there's no workaround for that. Sometimes the only real option is to rewrite the program in a different RAD or language. This is no copy+paste exercise, this usually really can only be from the ground up. So much for a RAD making my job easier!

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