Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:41:49 -0800, "White Flame \(aka David Holz\)"
<whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com> wrote:

>Now, what you call "ooh, it can do more", I see as "why'd he reinvent the
>wheel?"  If I'm under a preexisting GUI system, I can spend less time
>programming the interface mechanics and more time programming the actual
>functionality.  Besides, writing your own interface is hardly something that
>DOS can do that GUIs can't.

Personally, I've found that writing programs even today, I spend about
20% of my time writing the actual functionality of the program and 80%
working on user interface stuff.  This is true both for my Apple IIgs
programming projects and the Windows stuff I am currently employed to
write.

Mind you, if I had some better RAD tools, that ratio would get better
but it would take quite the tool to get it to the point where I spend
less time on user interface code than on the code that actually does
something useful.

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 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
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