> In Anil's case, an IDE like Aptana or Zend would likely be beneficial > because of the autocompletion, syntax verification and highlighting......
i pretty much completely disagree with this notion. [no offense, i get the perspective]. i would argue that if someone *really* wants to learn a language, they should do it with as little assistance [eg: auto-complete] as possible. these features - which are pretty awesome, i agree - will lend themselves to becoming a crutch to the novice. i learned every language i know using a plain text editor [notepad, nano, emacs, kate, etc] first and until i felt that i had a thorough grasp of the language. not until then did i introduce the ide [which i love] for the convenience of auto-complete. i'd say the one exception to that might be a text editor with syntax highlighting. i don't see that as being a crutch as it doesn't hold your hand for anything. it just makes things easier to read. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
