> >> I'm have many years of experience with Matlab and find its IDE a >> can't-work-without-it tool. When one experiments its debugger the reason >> becomes obvious. >> >> > Do you claim that Fortran, C and Perl never achieved success until someone > wrote an IDE with a built-in debugger? ... Yeah, I know that's not what you > want to say. Please understand that even if you find an IDE indispensable > for Matlab, that doesn't make IDEs indispensable for all people for all > languages. The fair thing to say about IDEs is that they are a really good > idea to have because there are people who really really want them. > > Daniel > You have to admit that it's not fair to do such comparisons for the simple fact that when those languages started (and long long time after) IDEs like we are talking simply did not exist. Not that they do, you can't live without them. I do but with pain and let just don't forget that we are talking of general acceptance and not only the "Carnival of hackers".
I've seen this discussion some here ago in the Octave mailing list. See how much it was adopted (rather poorly in my view), specially on Windows. Joaquim >
