life after Windows....

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

A bit like those purists who sneer at IDEs and write everything using Vi
(when they can't find a vintage Edlin).

I can see why people like using IDEs, but I prefer to us vi for Linux
development purely because I feel that IDEs are turning programmers
'soft'. I generally have a terminal for each header file I am working
on, a terminal for each work file I am working on, and a terminal to
compile and debug. That's all the IDE I need.

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

Well, I much prefer C# Express IDE.

Brilliant product, and free.

Try Mono

White Spirit wrote:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

A bit like those purists who sneer at IDEs and write everything using Vi
(when they can't find a vintage Edlin).

I can see why people like using IDEs, but I prefer to us vi for Linux
development purely because I feel that IDEs are turning programmers
'soft'. I generally have a terminal for each header file I am working
on, a terminal for each work file I am working on, and a terminal to
compile and debug. That's all the IDE I need.

Hmmm. Well, I was once much the same, but using Visuals Studio has
convinced me otherwise. When the IDE provides context-sensitive
symbol completion and shows me the parameters needed for the function
in a popup window I spend a lot less time referring to headers and
manuals.

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Ray Fischer

Ray Fischer wrote:

White Spirit wrote:

I can see why people like using IDEs, but I prefer to us vi for Linux
development purely because I feel that IDEs are turning programmers
'soft'. I generally have a terminal for each header file I am working
on, a terminal for each work file I am working on, and a terminal to
compile and debug. That's all the IDE I need.

Hmmm. Well, I was once much the same, but using Visuals Studio has
convinced me otherwise. When the IDE provides context-sensitive
symbol completion and shows me the parameters needed for the function
in a popup window I spend a lot less time referring to headers and
manuals.

I have to use Visual Studio at work and auto-completion is one of the
things that irritates me. I agree that it is useful in negating the
need for looking up references for functions and classes, but it often
pops up obscuring the previous line of code that I need to look at. In
addition, if you make one typographical error, you can suddenly find it
has inserted something like _Application_Domain_blah_blah, which is most
unhelpful.