On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Paul A Houle wrote: > It's impossible to explain the power of the Eclipse/Java IDE to > anyone who works primarily in dynamic languages. I mean, it does > things that PHP IDEs can't even dream of doing: first of all, Eclipse > overcomes most of the verbosity of Java that makes Java painful to work > on. You can click on a 'create class' button and it creates a file in > the right place for the namespace it's in, fills in the headers and all > that. Renaming a class in Java is a big pain manually, but can be done > in two clicks in Eclipse: Eclipse renames all the instances of the > class, renames the file. Refactoring operations that could take a few > hours in PHP or in Java w/o an IDE can be done in under a minute... and > never a mistake.
Of course, you're ignoring the fact that these have little to do with Java - IDEs exist for PHP too. Personally, I dislike IDEs but to each their own. -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
