On 12/27/12 14:01, mogul wrote: > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I > do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the > next 20 years too for me?
Coding Python (and before that C, Pascal, and even some VB in there) using vi/vim has worked for about 10 of the last 15 years of my career. Most VCS concepts carry over, even if the exact technology changes: I started off with zipfiles, then an unfortunate dance with VSS & CVS before finding Subversion, then Mercurial, and now git. So time spent with git won't be lost. Some like the hand-holding of a full-blown IDE, but I prefer to get intimate with the code and stick to a text editor. > Oh, by the way, after 7 days I'm completely in love with this > python thing. I should have made the switch much earlier! Alas, one of the worst parts about programming in Python is that I now find it hard to go back to any of the other languages that I know. :-) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list