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03/27/08 16:28
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#152619 - Not (entirely) true
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Richard Erlacher said:
The reason people pay lots of $$$ for a Windows-based product is because they're too dumb, or too lazy, to learn how to use the free tools.

Not at all!
After all, there are plenty of free GUI-based tools, and even free tools for Windows (including SDCC, of course)

In very many cases, a command line is a very cumbersome and difficult-to-use thing - it's just not the natural way that people work.

When you go into a shop, they don't insist that you quote the stock number before they'll serve you - you can just point and say, "one of those, please"
A GUI models that approach.

In many ways, a GUI is a far more convenient approach - and it's a convenience that's worth paying for.

Of course, a GUI is not suited to every task, and fear of the command-line will certainly hamper you.

As ever, it's a case of knowing all the options - and picking the most suitable one to the specific task at hand.

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TopicAuthorDate
any user friendly 8051 cross compiler beside Keil            01/01/70 00:00      
   wrong question            01/01/70 00:00      
   question needs clarification            01/01/70 00:00      
   Why "beside Keil"            01/01/70 00:00      
      The price?            01/01/70 00:00      
         "price" should be totally irrelevant            01/01/70 00:00      
            We call that "value"            01/01/70 00:00      
            Maybe.            01/01/70 00:00      
               i realize such cases exist            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I spotted that...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I know            01/01/70 00:00      
         Maybe so,            01/01/70 00:00      
   It's a tradeoff            01/01/70 00:00      
      command line            01/01/70 00:00      
         You haven't clarified anything!            01/01/70 00:00      
         Eh?            01/01/70 00:00      
         You should fear WINDOWS, and not the command line!            01/01/70 00:00      
            Not (entirely) true            01/01/70 00:00      
               Agreed            01/01/70 00:00      
               It can't work "up close"            01/01/70 00:00      
            it's not the GUIs fault            01/01/70 00:00      
               Yes, but it is Windows' fault            01/01/70 00:00      
            cost of Keil            01/01/70 00:00      
            mixed arguments            01/01/70 00:00      
   IDE            01/01/70 00:00      
      WHY?            01/01/70 00:00      
      But is that the actual question?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Putting 2 and 2 together...            01/01/70 00:00      

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