BS> For programming simple languages like C/C++, I would not have much benefit
 BS> from a IDE. I think just a nice text editor is needed. However for 

This I imagine assumes you wrote the software to begin with and know where
everything is.

A text editor doesn't help much with code navigation.

With Visual Studio, all I had to do is import the Maximus source tree and
Intellisense did the rest. I can easily locate any symbol, declaration and
definition, create call/callers graphs, outlines etc. These tools help a
programmer familiarise new projects much faster.


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