ActiveState going the wrong way

Costas Menico costas at meezon.com
Mon Apr 9 21:03:49 EDT 2001


I think ActiveState's Komodo tool is very poorly designed. It is real
slow and even harder to use. I dont understand why they didnt take
something like PythonWin (a much better IDE) and enhance it? 

Also the idea of a multiprogramming environment is just a dream. No
one is going to program in Python and Perl at the same time. Most
people choose a language and stay with it. An IDE that tries to
accomodate multiple languages is a poor IDE. Each language has its
strengths and weaknesses and the IDE is supposed to ehnance them. Not
burden with another languages issues.

Installation took me longer than installing Windows (anyway it felt
like it). I understand the concept of using Mozilla but I think it
stinks. Get rid of it.

I am sorry I am so critical of this but I am frustrated with poorly
designed tools. 

Someone should look at PythonWin and enhance it. I would be willing to
pay money for that one. Hey Mark how about it? 

And now to the Komodo uninstall icon.

costas



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