[pm-h] Programmer Editors (was 'January Meeting')

[Robert Boone]

	I think you are making the assumption that we have never used IDE's.  
I used to be a borland language
junkie. I used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Borland C++ and their  
respective IDE's. It's not that I don't
like some of the features of an IDE, but I prefer to setup my  
environment differently than most IDE's. I've
been toying with Devel::PerlySense for a few weeks. It has lots of  
features that an IDE would have with out
giving up the freedom to change the functionality as the situation  
changes or just as I learn more about
programming.

	Who knows, one day someone may write an IDE that works for me. But so  
far that hasn't happened.

:)


Robert




On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Boone <robo4288 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> As you can tell I don't really care for IDE's, for me they mostly get
>> in the way. I would rather build a working environment in an editor
>> that let me do that in the way I think is best for me.
>
> I've gotta admit I'm surprised how many people feel a lack of interest
> in access to IDEs. I find IDEs help me program/debug faster, as they
> point out errors to me as I commit them, rather than 10+ minutes later
> when I go to run the code. Usually there's little difference between
> fixing the error before or after, but every once in a while, the
> mistake is subtle enough that you end up spending much more time down
> the road trying to figure out what tidbit of the code went wrong.
>
> I wonder... If Emacs/vim came with an IDE,  would you use and
> appreciate it more? Both of your choices have their origins as
> terminal editors. As a result, they do not readily lend themselves to
> being an IDE. So I guess my question is whether this an accessibility
> issue or truly it holds no value for you?
>
> Another thing occurs to me, which is we might not have a consistent
> definition of "IDE" here. Most of these apps offer some features of an
> IDE. The major one for me is code analysis, but it occurs to me that
> syntax hilighting, etc. would also be components of an IDE, which
> would make everything but Notepad an IDE :D
>
> Todd
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