From: William Crawford <wccrawford@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T18:40:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

unknown wrote:
> 1: ruby is an efisiont clean languige that is digsined to minamize
> boilerplate code

That's what's wonderful about Ruby, but that doesn't mean it doesn't 
need an IDE.  IDE is not about 'boilerplate code'.  It's about easy of 
coding, viewing, and debugging code.

> 2: lets say you have an array of strings and you want to find all
> strigs that maches a patern and print them space seperated
> <code>
> i = %w{foo bar baz qux quux quuux quuuux}
> puts i.find_all{|x| x =~ /qu+x/}.join(' ')
> </code>

Again, this has nothing to do with an IDE.

> 3: java on the other hand has a lot of boiler plate like setters and
> getters. i chose java because of  the good ide suport. I am a emacs guy
> and what i like about it is this lets say you want to deleat a block
> 
> C-space C-S end
> C-w
> 
> I am much more efective with ruby and emacs than with eclipce and java
> becaus the languige is almost sudocode like this echo utilaty or the
> mach utilaty above
> 
> <code>
> puts ARGV.join('  ')
> </code>

And again...  Just because it's easier to write Ruby code does not mean 
we don't need an IDE.

I can write any language I know on a whiteboard.  That doesn't mean I 
don't need an IDE to be most productive.

On a side note, Quanta's voting system has an item for Ruby code 
completion that was just confirmed.  Anyone interested might want to add 
their weight to it.  A link for those who care: 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129279

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