Only a nit. begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, May 22, 2006 at 06:37:43PM -0700: [snip] > This is a tough one for Windows people. For the unix world the bash
Grrr. Bash is not the only shell. Say instead, your _shell_ prompt. Especially when you say unix and not linux. > prompt IS your IDE. Or some might say emacs is their IDE. I think this I would say that Emacs has a better claim on being an IDE. It's _integrated_. A shell isn't integrated. UNIX gives a development environment, but Emacs gives you an IDE. > is in line with the unix philosophy of using a number of small tools > each of which does its job well. As opposed to one big inflexible tool > that tries to do everything. Oh, IDEs can have a lot of flexibility. But to extend 'em, you've got to move into _their_ world. With Emacs, you learn lisp. With Eclipse, you learn the plugin-architecture. With smalltalk, you, um, learn smalltalk, and the libraries, and the IDE. But then, smalltalk isn't shell-friendly, generally. Even GST isn't very nice in that regard, which strikes me as a major downside to smalltalk (but it isn't to many smalltalkers). [snip] -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
