I think you are making the assumption that we have never used IDE's.
I used to be a borland language
junkie. I used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Borland C++ and their
respective IDE's. It's not that I don't
like some of the features of an IDE, but I prefer to setup my
environment differently than most IDE's. I've
been toying with Devel::PerlySense for a few weeks. It has lots of
features that an IDE would have with out
giving up the freedom to change the functionality as the situation
changes or just as I learn more about
programming.
Who knows, one day someone may write an IDE that works for me. But so
far that hasn't happened.
:)
Robert
On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Boone <[email protected]>
wrote:
As you can tell I don't really care for IDE's, for me they mostly get
in the way. I would rather build a working environment in an editor
that let me do that in the way I think is best for me.
I've gotta admit I'm surprised how many people feel a lack of interest
in access to IDEs. I find IDEs help me program/debug faster, as they
point out errors to me as I commit them, rather than 10+ minutes later
when I go to run the code. Usually there's little difference between
fixing the error before or after, but every once in a while, the
mistake is subtle enough that you end up spending much more time down
the road trying to figure out what tidbit of the code went wrong.
I wonder... If Emacs/vim came with an IDE, would you use and
appreciate it more? Both of your choices have their origins as
terminal editors. As a result, they do not readily lend themselves to
being an IDE. So I guess my question is whether this an accessibility
issue or truly it holds no value for you?
Another thing occurs to me, which is we might not have a consistent
definition of "IDE" here. Most of these apps offer some features of an
IDE. The major one for me is code analysis, but it occurs to me that
syntax hilighting, etc. would also be components of an IDE, which
would make everything but Notepad an IDE :D
Todd
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