OpenEuphoria

RE: Block Commenting

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Aug 03, 2003
• 485 views

jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:

> An IDE is mostly good for developing GUI applications. If you don't need 
> the app
> to have a GUI then you don't need an IDE to make the app.

    Sorry to say, but you are mistaken here. An IDE can include
    gui builders, but that's not always the case. When you are
    developing large software systems you also need documentation
    maintanance, test-integration, quality assurance, bug-tracking
    and task-tracking, build management, installer generation,
    version management and much more: loads of stuff that has little
    to do with a editor but much more with a Integrated Development
    Environment (or IDE). Ever heard of iCase ?

> Also, if you write your own editor (possible if you base it on ed.ex, 
> ee.ex,
> or even Meditor) then you can add whatever you need to it, w/o making it 
> into
> a full IDE.

    A real IDE is something completely different from a Editor,
    see comment above.

    I have been a software developer for the last 22 years and after
    you have written as many code as I have done (I've stopped
    counting after the first million lines of code) you know that
    an editor is just a small part of what you need in software
    projects.

    Btw, for those interested in real Software Engineering, visit
    the SEI website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu

> BTW, what does Tmo mean?

    To My Opinion.

Hans Peter Willems