Steve: I think you skimmed the article see:
"The upside is, after acclimating to Eclipse, you’ll enjoy some seriously amazing, productivity-boosting code completion, refactoring, and automatic fixing. It’ll basically write your code for you." I think the real problem is that we expect Eclipse to be light weight like ED/AE, vi, EMACS, Notepad, or whatever. Well it is an full IDE and with it comes incredible power. The cost is nominal is today's world where I'm using a Windows 7 box with 8 gb of memory and 2 250 gb of hard disk space workstation. However, my Java programmer has our Eclipse running on his NetBook with 1 gb of memory he paid under $300.00 for it. All of the editing of program is done on my workstation. If I need to search thousands of programs for a piece of syntax or other program that are using this bit of code, it all happens on my workstation in seconds with impacting the server running Universe or Unidata. I can guarantee you will be more productive and will have less errors in you code. How do you say I can say that. Well I've been on Eclipse since 2004 and each year, even though I'm getting older, my tools are getting smarter and my code is getting leaner. Our tool is updated about every 3 or 4 weeks with bug fixes and enhancements. Do the other tools have that type of release cycle? Nope. The only ones that are releasing software that often are now browsers. See Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Lets talk about productivity. I want to know where this variable named. I can hit control-K once it is highlighted in the code. Or I can use the Outline and click on each line to see how it being used. This means with a minute or two I know the scope of the variable and where it used. This means I have less problems with stepping on variables I should not be doing. BDT is free along with the other Eclipse based tools from Rocket Software. I tried free and did not make a dime. I could go on, but I already have done that in the two classes I taught this year at CMUG using Eclipse. Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com/tools.html "XLr8Editor is still $49.00 per year per workstation" _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
