On 2/4/13 12:25 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Add another vote there! I used Eclipse for a couple of Ruby in Rails > projects, and found it slow and difficult to maintain. Having come from the > tightly-integrated IDE of FoxPro, I thought this would be a gentler > introduction into FOSS tools, but found it really got in the way. These > days, a terminal, a browser and a ViM session are all I need.
I probably judged Eclipse too quickly to be fair, because I downloaded it, installed it, used it to make one test Java project, and at the end of the day said 'this isn't the language, nor the ide, for me.' It has probably improved over time: this was in probably 2002. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

