-=> andrew clarke wrote to Mvan Le <=-

 ac> Really?

 ac> IDEs make sense if you're looking up the help files a lot, or a heavy
 ac> debugging session, or are using a RAD-based UI/code generator (eg.
 ac> Delphi) but there's a big advantage in just using a good text editor
 ac> (Notepad++ in Windows is nice) and makefiles.  The editor's keybindings
 ac> are constant and you're not restricting yourself to a single compiler
 ac> suite.

For programming simple languages like C/C++, I would not have much benefit
from a IDE. I think just a nice text editor is needed. However for 
programming languages like the .NET family with comes with a huge framework/
standard library, it's nice to have help files and all stuff in the IDE.

Bo


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