(The)BrainDead? (Hopefully not yet)

Posted by Lothar Scholz
Oct 24, 2020 at 06:34 PM

Just one example: Why are people using this terrible inflexible tree control instead of really writing a good one that can also be used for single pane outline editing. Because it’s there, so it seems to be wise (and thats what teached in business and programming school) to reuse it. Even if this is essential to your app. So everything looks and feels the same. And it’s not only the software industry working like this.

In the days of DOS and GrandView for example it was so simple to write an editor yourself. And thats why GrandView and More is still unique.