Re: [ILUG-BOM] Text Editors versus IDE - Your opinions

On 9/14/07, Roshan d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Surprisingly, the same students are allowed to use the Turbo C++ 3.0 (16-bit compiler) IDE with syntax highlighting for C / C++ programs and are able to write typical C / C++ programs later.

Not really. They get a bit of a culture shock when they realize that they actually have something called a compiler and it is different from the stuff they write programs in.

I had a few colleagues complaining to no end about how poor Linux was as a development environment because the had to write the program with a different program and compile with another. It took them a while to understand the amount of power and flexibility unleashed by the combo.