>> interesting, that's the answer in the supercomputing world too. > > Interesting. I'm tutoring high school students in a > programming contest right now. They are writing their codes > with emacs/vi and running their MPI jobs on Origin 2k. > > One of the contestants told me .NET was a far better interface > for programming, which included everything like editor, > compiler, debugger, online manuals and what not. > > Actually, he even showed me debugging fruently on .NET. > I rather felt old then... > # no flame intended > --
It has been my experience that IDE's (including things like Eclipse) add as many problems as they "solve" with their interfaces. Also, they're not universal; e.g. try to do Windows driver debugging with Visual Studio. Guess what works? printing to the console. Acid is about the best idea I've seen.
