Editors and IDEs are unfortunately a religious topic. Too many people
feel that one size fits all, and that everyone that does not make the
same choice is, well, stupid.
For me, the choice of editor or IDE is strongly affected by the syntax
and indentation style of the language. ISPF is my editor of choice for
assembler, JCL, etc., but I would sooner have a root canal than use it
for C++ or Java. IDEs (and smart editors like jEdit) can do a lot in the
areas of code completion, syntax checking, automatic code formatting,
etc., to help increase programmer productivity.
Like Kirk, I disagree with much of what is said in the article, which is
long on opinion and short on objective facts.
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Regards, Gord Tomlin
Action Software International
(a division of Mazda Computer Corporation)
Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507
On 2012-10-30 08:52, McKown, John wrote:
http://www.recursivity.com/blog/2012/10/28/ides-are-a-language-smell/
This person, a PC type, has come to the conclusion that "IDEs" exist due to the
horrible nature of the languages that they support (in his case Java). That, with a
properly designed language, a simple highlighting editor (PDF editor to us, vim/emacs to
him) is more than sufficient for coding.
The article is short, but I found it interesting because the Windows people
tend to denigrate us for the lack of IDEs on the mainframe.
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