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.
> 
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