From: shawn bright <nephish@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T23:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE?

i love these favorite editor / ide threads, i am always looking for a
new one to play around with. I have always found the coolest things in
these threads.
sk

On 4/12/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Huh? That's just arbitrary nonsense!
> (this may be a flame)
> I dare you to define IDE under pain of slashdotting.
> (why is slashdot so flamey?)
> Seriously though, editors are viable as IDEs if they do the sending
> to the compiler/parser.
> TextMate, like EMACS is often more of a nexus of tools, but isn't
> that what the "I" in IDE is all about?
>  From that note, what constitutes debugging? Stepping through a
> program with breakpoints? Perhaps, but no. Debugging is simply
> removing the bugs by any means necessary.
>
> irb is an unusual case only seriously matched by shell code and
> SmallTalk.
>
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:35 PM, ChrisKaelin wrote:
>
> > Well, I should've written "vi, emacs, irb and commandline do not
> > count", but that would've given me some flames ;-)
> >
> > BTW, does textmate support debugging?
> >
> >
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