From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 12:34:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA00792 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101136.iafrica.com [196.7.101.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00765 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00449; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:32:39 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601292032.WAA00449@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: compilers To: pblonde@agrium.com (Paul Blonde) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:32:37 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Paul Blonde" at Jan 29, 96 09:25:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Paul Blonde wrote: > > I am interested in finding out if there is any > effort/interest in creating (if it does not already exist) > an advanced IDE comparable to the > Borland/Microsoft/Watcom/etc. environments for > FreeBSD and/or Linux. Ever heard of Emacs? :-) Seriously, though, by Integrated Development Environment do you mean DOS-based stuff like (I guess this is pretty out of date) Turbo C 2.0 or the Microsoft Programmer's Workbench, or are you talking Windows- based things like Visual C++ or Delphi? I think the DOS-based IDEs were to some extent an attempt to overcome DOS limitations, like lack of multi-tasking and lack of support for inter- process communication. I don't know that there would be much _point_ on Unix. I mean, you can already compile and edit and read man pages at the same time.... On the other hand, I guess it is kind of fun to click on dialog boxes and radio buttons, and resize them and move them around, and let the system write the code for you. That stuff is pretty neat, if it can manage to stay out of your way when you're not interested in the GUI side of things. What do you have in mind? -- Robert Nordier