somebody wrote:

> It's not really the size but the nature of the development. (Visual) IDE's
> save a lot of time and effort with the tedious, design related (be it DB or
> GUI), "non-coding" type tasks.

I use a text editor to edit my source, a CLI tool for version control, 
the compiler itself tracks source dependencies, I use Glade for GUI 
design, and so on. It's a "development environment", but it isn't 
"integrated".

> And it's hard to draw the line nowadays
> between IDE's and programmers' editors. Syntax highlighting used to be an
> IDE job, now every notepad replacement does it. Same for code folding, maybe
> to a lesser degree. Refectoring is probably next. As both IDEs and editors
> get more complex, today's IDE becomes tomorrow's editor.

Yeah, I got that feeling also.

> Use what's right for the job, instead of following the hype.

That's surely good advice for anything! :-)

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