It is the last day of my training out here in San Diego.  While this trip has been productive and I've learned a lot, I am more than ready to get back home and to the "real world".  Frankly I don't have the attention span necessary to sit in class for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.  I don't know how I even made it through college.

I have realized something while I've been out here.  While the language is pretty neato for accomplishing tasks in Symitar, it is also rather limited.  It is a procedural language and lacks many functions of even a basic procedural language (biggest downfall is the lack of "functions").  It has procedures (akin to VB) where I can call them without variables, but it really would be nice to be able to set a variable and pass it.  I suppose I "could" do that, but that requires a global variable with is less elegant.

Additionally, they lack a good IDE.  What it really comes down to is they have an embedded text editor lacking any fanfare or help mechanism.  While many people criticize Microsoft products, everybody has to concede that their IDEs for development are clearly the best out there.  Oh sure, the Java community has come a long way in attempting to emulate the Microsoft dev studios with Eclipse, NetBeans, JCreator, etc; even the latest Sun IDE (name is escaping me right now) is really good in its own right, but nothing compares to Visual Studio... yet.

Symitar, on the other hand, doesn't even attempt to make something usable.  They are back in the archaic age of hand coding everything.  I don't think that is a bad thing in and of itself, but it is certainly a productivity killer.

I think I'll write one.