-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey John Calcote wrote: > In my experience, there is little need for an IDE when writing C/C++ > programs, as the standard library is fairly small. Perhaps an IDE is > helpful during early learning stages of these languages, but one > quickly becomes familiar with these libraries. Additionally, C/C++ > programmers who've reached the point of using the Autotools are > probably already beyond the need for such intensive help with the > standard library. Man pages usually serve well enough for basic > needs here. I totally agree, i always find IDEs awkward never really liked them. I find any language from GCC collection or others like haskell python etc. Are much simpler to work with using emacs/vim, and any help an IDE may give you is only in the api lookup but i prefer manual lookup because you end up learning the lang and api better and anything else the ide just eats your memory and cpu. > Since most Autotools-based projects are written in C/C++, it's > unlikely that many programmers working on Autotools-based projects > are using IDEs. Definitely, i haven't seen any serious project that relies on IDE's unless they are cross platform and talk about working it on windows with msvc. But i have no idea how that works and don't really want to. > > I'm sure that as gcj and other GNU tools for Java become popular, > more Java development will be done on Autotools-based projects. When > that happens, I foresee enhanced desire within the Java freeware > community for a well-conceived Eclipse plugin for Autotools projects. There has been increased talk of GCJ on gcc-help so maybe thats possible. > > Just my humble opinion. Well said ;)! I argued this a lot with my old job to my project lead and co-workers and ended up doing most of the work. They laughed at me writing my own makefiles and said i was stupid, though they stole my work anyways. I wasn't impressed. ;) - --Phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpfaNkACgkQAhcOgIaQQ2FaWgCfTo0S2OyXizDh5CkR0Xv42DWF pukAn0PRa4yQQhN1NoInG4IpXSlYgIRa =eR+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
