Subj : don't cry for me I have vi
To   : tony summerfelt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Apr 03 2005 01:30 pm

Hey Tony!

 ts> i've used command line debuggers:  softscope for C on intel
 ts>  workstations running RMX. and several different ide's

That's all new to me.  I've heard of workstations, even Intel ones but the rest 
I've never encountered or heard of before.  I obviously live a very sheltered 
life.

 ts> but it was back and forth...very cumbersome...

I suppose.  However, most of the programming I did way back when there would be 
little benefit to an ide.  Very little, if any, had anything to do with 
"normal" user-orientated applications.  From what I've seen with most Unixie 
type programming I doubt there would be much benefit having an ide.  The 
typical Unix program as a rule tends to be fixated on doing one thing.  I 
suppose the beefier apps, such as a shell program, that might differ but most 
basic Unixie source I can't really see it.

 ts> there's a reason why vb, delphi, and visual studio have made the
 ts> progress they have...

Really?  I have yet to see them make inroads.  We must be talking about that 
other OS.  A few years or so ago Borland tried to get their foot in the door 
with Linux but didn't get that far with it that I've noticed.  Same with Sun 
and Java, although they've had better success with that simply because they've 
always been Unixie, but it appears to me that most of Java tends to be limited 
to a few web applications and hasn't been the unifying force Sun predicted way 
back when, especially considering they had to sue MS over that very issue.  How 
has that all worked out since?  i haven't noticed any real effect.

Anyhow, to get back ontopic, I really don't know what use a perl ide would have 
on a Linux box given that most perl scripts tend to be quite small and fixated 
towards a specific task at hand, not unlike most things Unixie.  I honestly 
don't see it happening to be quite honest.  Perhaps on XP but fortunetly that 
has absolutely no impact here.

- Maurice


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