Re: Loosely-coupled development environment

2008-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:47:36 +1100, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead, I find the greater gain comes from a working environment > > of *loosely-coupled* tools, with standard well-defined interfaces, > > that one can flexibly mold and recon

Re: Loosely-coupled development environment (was: IDE Question)

2008-10-18 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:47:36 +1100, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Steve Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am just wondering what seems to be the most popular IDE. The >> reason I ask is I am currently at war with myself when it comes to >> IDE's. It seems like every one I find

Re: Loosely-coupled development environment

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You've never used BBEdit? (Perhaps because of the platform you use > -- that's a Mac-only text editor, but it meets your criteria nicely. > The free version "TextWrangler" does a pretty darn good job too, > though of course has some limitations.) Not becau

Re: Loosely-coupled development environment (was: IDE Question)

2008-10-15 Thread Joe Strout
On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Because of the inescapable central role in our craft of manipulating text files, essential in this development environment is a highly-customisable text editor with a broad *and* deep library of existing customisations, to maximise the amount of wor