Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK, so apart from syntax hilighting, what does an IDE actually do?

  Do you know what a makefile is?

  Make a system which automatically builds a "makefile" behind the scenes
and keeps it up-to-date as the source code changes (ie. by updating all the
dependencies between files), and you have gone a long way towards an IDE.

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                                                          - Warp

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