On Apr 20, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Bin Hu wrote:
Hi Owen,
Hi!
<snip>
For any program that is not Mac-oriented, I would use an old fashion
text editor commonly found in Unix/Linux. The only exception is that I
use Eclipse for some Java programs.
Maybe this is personal preference: I really prefer a true text editor,
which can handle 95% of my types, than a fancy IDE.
I agree .. the learning curve, and constraints that an IDE impose can
offset their use. However, in the java case, the javadocs integration
is great, as is code completion. Helping manage library paths is also
a plus. Although I can grok Java's library installations and use,
Python I find confusing. Hard to believe for such a lovely and simple/
agile language!
TextMate on the Mac is sort of in between: its such a flexible editor
that things like simple language aids are easily built in. But
definitely not to the point of code completion for library based APIs.
-- Owen
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