[Tutor] IDE

Michael yaV michael at yavarsity.com
Tue Jun 10 16:44:44 CEST 2008


How about for the Mac platform?


On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:

> "Sean Novak" <snovak at snovak.com> wrote
>
>> I'm looking for the perfect IDE, preferably open source.
>
> Aren't we all! :-)
>
> We used to have editor wars, now its IDE wars...
>
>> someone has tried a few different IDEs and found the one that they  
>> love..  I'd be interested in your insight!
>
> I've tried many and liked several but none ae perfect.
> And some suit different tasks better than others.
>
> The best of all is probably the Dolphin Smalltalk IDE, but it has
> the disadvantage of only doing Smalltalk on a Windows box...
>
> I also liked the Borland Delphi IDE around version 3. The later
> versions are based on Eclipse with which I have a love/hate
> relationship! But Delphi is commercial and doesn't do Python!
>
> I liked ObjectCenter on my Sun workstation, but it costs big
> bucks and doesn't do Python.
>
> For Python work, since I assume that's what you are really
> interested in, I use Pythonwin for small projects. For bigger jobs
> I use vim with a command prompt and an interactive session.
> 3 windows and Unix or Cygwin to provide the other tools.
>
> Old fashioned, but it's the most productive route for me.
>
> Alan G
>
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