--- "Nadeem M. Khan" nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
I second that. You've hit the nail on the head! I couldn't agree with you more. Visual this and Visual that cannot be considered "languages", atleast IMHO.
As a popular quote goes, I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, Vi and Perl. Thank you.
Nothing thrills me more than writing pure, clean code on a black and white console.
With no offense intended (and without any intention to trigger an IDE war): I wonder if you've worked with Object Oriented platforms such as Java or C++ where one has to work with thousands of classes. I myself have been a notepad programmer once, but I'm addicted to the performance boosts that an IDE provides me with.
I'm sure that COM, CORBA and Gnome developers would know what I'm talking about. I've not much clue about KDE, though I've read that D-BUS is a good architecture.
Automatic code generation today has come a long way from dumb code generation of the past. Also, I wonder if many Visual Basic critics have ever really seen Object Oriented COM programming in Visual Basic 6. I'll post some thoughts on this in a separate mail.
My point: I feel that a skilled text console based programmer would benefit enormously from the performance boosts that a graphical IDE would offer.
I happen to be a developer for the Eclipse platform, and intend to make Eclipse platform development my career. The next time I visit Mumbai and my visit co-incides with a LUG meet, I'd been happy to show case the Eclipse IDE. I understand that there was some demo recently, but don't know more.
Regards, NMK.
-- Sriram
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