From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T14:15:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Unix is not an *I*DE (Was: Any TextMate Editor equivelent for Windows ?)

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:13:13AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
> 
> The power of GNU/Linux lies in the very fact that it is NOT an IDE.
> You are taking it to mean development environment, and it certainly is
> a fine one.

That depends on what you mean by "integrated".  I mean "integrated" in
that, once I get it all set up, it works together beautifully.  You seem
to mean "integrated" as in "someone else integrated what they like, and
now I have to live with it".

> 
> Calling it an IDE is an over abstraction... and is just plain wrong,
> both in the sense of the word, and in the philisophical sense. 
> However, calling it a fine development platform that precludes the
> need for an IDE, while controversial and debatable, would be something
> I'd agree on.

Tomayto, tomahto.  Either way, I rather like it.

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