Re: OPINION: What are the best Linux C++ IDE's out there?

From: d2003xx (d2003xx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/08/03 

Date: 7 Sep 2003 21:40:10 -0700

Noah Roberts <nroberts@dontemailme.com> wrote in message news:<3F3FA5E5.9000202@dontemailme.com>...

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> > As you have noticed from many posts in this thread, the majority of the Unix
> > command line freaks deny the need for an integrated development environment.
> > This is why I never will become comfortable with GNU and Linux, because the
> > development of development environments (beyond batch level) never was a real
> > topic there. These people cannot know how much software development can profit
> > from the use of a good IDE, because they never had a chance to use such a tool,
> > where all their knowledge and experience with their legacy tools was obsolete.
>
> Enlighten us then. What benefits have you ever gotten from using an IDE
> over the Unix command line and a nice programmer's editor? The only
> real difference I see in the two at all is that the IDE puts all of the
> options you would normally set in a Makefile into a system of menu
> higherarchies. I have used things like MS VStudio and Borland Delphi to
> develop small programs at schools and for the most part they
> significantly slowed me down. The GUI building facilities are the only
> real time saver I can see and we have those too.
>
> So please tell us, what is so great about an IDE that would outweigh the
> bloat?

- Fully integrated help system. Ex: when you type a function, the IDE
automatically tells you its parameters, usage, .... whatever..

- Cross-reference index. Ex: you can know where a class is used (not
"defined")... This is too hard to be implemented as a command-line
tool.

- Search tool: search (+replace) for a function, a class, or a string
in comments, ... It's a nightmare to use find+grep to do this.. (open
vi for each result?)

- Integrated UML generator, spy, package creator, GUI form builder,
version system, refactory, unit test, background build system,
multiple-developer task tracking, ....

I haven't seen those features are implemented in any single IDE though
:=)

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