>>"Urmil" == Urmil Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Urmil> Don't consider IDEs as just simple text editor with support for
Urmil> compilation. IDEs are those editors which know the programming
Urmil> language better than you.
*Boggle*. A program that knows the language better than I? Now
there is a concept. Perhaps this is a contributory factor to the
growing mediocrity that I see arsising -- people have stopped
mastering ther trade, and depending on tools to do so.
Urmil> The online syntax checking,... offered by M$ Visual Studio
Urmil> prevent you from writing erroneous code right from the
Urmil> beginning when you actually write it.
And also prevent you from learning the language as fast as you
could have, and, in some cases, from learning at all.
When I learn a new language, I have long realized that the
concepts are the same; only the syntax changes. Unfortunately, had I
been spoon fed from the get go, I don't thinkI'd ever have seen
beyond teh syntax, since I'd always have depended on this magical
program to get it right for me.
Urmil> Hey, can you remember definitions of thousands of
Urmil> structures / unions / classes that you use in your program?
Herll, yes, if I am doing any coding. Even in maintainenece I
learn enough of the structure that I do know the parts I am
changing.
And an IDE is not required in any case, look at the id utils
from the FSF
q Urmil> Those facilities relieve you from remembering all those stuff
Urmil> and helps you pay more attention to your program. It naturally
Urmil> saves your very very precious time and effort.
How can you pay attention to something when you have no clue
about the contents? Yes, it does save you time -- but I contend it
does not save you money.
Training your technical staff rather than developing ide
pushers shall gain you money in the long run, as those nascent would
be programmers learn their trade.
manoj
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woman who was crying and appeared near a state of collapse. ``You
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family, and you have to take care of them too.'' Hulse explained to
reporters that the woman ``hasn't eaten for weeks'' because of
anxiety over the fate of two dogs who were ostensibly buried in the
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