So if ides are so unnecessary why then did they evolve from yesterdays text editor and why does the overwhelming majority of the planet use them ? They can't all be wrong or Misguided ?
On 25/11/2010, at 4:20 PM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/24 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: >> It's not that simple: IDE's perform some basic cleanup that limits the >> amount of noise that bad developers generate, such as cleaning up imports, >> flagging unused variables, checking the style and formatting the code >> correctly, etc... > > What?? Even in environments where everyone is using an IDE, I have > encountered people that do not constantly clean up imports and such. > They leave used variables. They don't format at all, or have a very > unorthodox style. This has nothing to do with the tool, as you can > easily get all of those "warnings" in vim, as well (again, a simple > ":cope" (yes, yes, you could just keep ":cn"ing to the next message.) > after running checkstyle will show all of the ones you just > mentioned). This is completely 100% the developer. To claim > otherwise is just a conceit. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
