[Lazarus] External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

Marcos Douglas B. Santos md at delfire.net
Fri Dec 1 14:33:54 CET 2017


On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
> I don't believe you can give a general rule. The tool must be appropriate
> for the application. The word "programming" includes an universe of non
> compatible things. Something like "mechanical design". Designing a watch is
> something completing different than designing a monorail train.
>
> We used Delphi, and now use Lazarus to design the human interface for
> automatic machines, where the visual part is the most important one. The RAD
> approach is the most efficient and productive. But when we had to interface
> the production data generated with company database, it turned out that one
> had to write a lot of non-visual code, and we found that RAD approach would
> just have confused things, leading to unreadable and inefficient code.

I believe RAD is the best way to code a GUI, but not to write the
business rules.
As you said, "...RAD approach would just have confused things, leading to
unreadable and inefficient code".

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas


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