Actually for beginners I would suggest using BlueJ. Paul Franz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derrick Okundaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:08 AM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Which IDE to use
> There are soo many sages on this list l wonder why the rest of us bother. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Ottinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 December 2002 10:40 > To: JDJList > Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Which IDE to use > > > Bah, editor discussions are so stupid. > > All of them. > > Even if you recommend IDEA or emacs, you're wrong. An editor is a personal > choice. If you're the kind of person who wants to write code, you can do > so with a chisel and a stone tablet. If you're the kind of moron who needs > code written for you, JBuilder's easy to find... and if JBuilder scares > you, there's netbeans, forte, sun forty-three-point-seven. If you're a > student, JCreator awaits to screw you up as much as it can. > > Face it, you can recommend editors all you like, but it's a preferential > thing, like saying "Green is the best colour." (By the way, green IS the > best colour.) What needs to happen is for someone to make a bullet-list of > features, with comments on features. The danger of bullet lists, of > course, is that they encourage featuritis on the part of the editor > authors. ("Now slices! And dices! Does Netbeans do this yet? We think > not! ... and if you know anything about advertising, we just said Netbeans > was better than us. Oops.") > > Ah, to have a world where idiots were muted... > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
