On 13 Jun 96, Michael Renzmann wrote to Lawrence Gordon:
 LG> Some like QB's editor; some don't.  The price you pay for it is a
 LG> slowdown in program execution due to PCODE and increased memory
 LG> requirements for the IDE.  Zale is not trying to create a QB clone
 LG> with PB.
 MR> But it should be possible to enhance the IDE a lot... it's nice to
 MR> have that good features PB provides but on the other hand it's not
 MR> that much fun working within the IDE as it was with the QB-Ide...
And yet, a lot of people prefer PB's IDE because it doesn't "hold your hand".
 MR> I plan to write some kind of enhanced IDE for PB but that project will
 MR> have to wait since I have not that much time I'd like to have for
 MR> programming... :-/
I'd be interested in looking at it when you're ready to beta test it.
 LG> Borland used to offer a separate help tsr for Turbo Pascal, C and
 LG> TASM. I always thought it was a good idea.
 MR> Why not writing it yourself? I think that the format of PBs help files
 MR> isn't top secret, so why not asking Bob Zale to leave the
 MR> documentation for those files in order to develop such a tsr?
I don't have the time to write one, and I usually use the IDE.  When
I don't, I keep the reference manuals busy. :)
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