ML> BS> For programming simple languages like C/C++, I would not have much
ML>benefit
ML> BS> from a IDE. I think just a nice text editor is needed. However for 
ML>
ML>This I imagine assumes you wrote the software to begin with and know
ML>where everything is.

Maybe, I used the same setup for my development on Maximus, and it worked
out great.. 

ML>A text editor doesn't help much with code navigation.
ML>
ML>With Visual Studio, all I had to do is import the Maximus source tree
ML>and Intellisense did the rest. I can easily locate any symbol,
ML>declaration and definition, create call/callers graphs, outlines etc.
ML>These tools help a programmer familiarise new projects much faster.

Yes it's nice with all these utilities, however I am quite sure that
you can find small unix programs which does that same for you.

Bo

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