Review of featured applications

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:42:04PM -0700, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > > Saying it in a simpler way:
> > > - Will an IDE encourage people to learn programming?
> > > - Will opportunistic developers be able to use it to complete their 
> > > desired project?
> > > - Will experienced developers find the suggested IDE helpful or will 
> > > they already use their existing IDE/do the research themselves?
> > > 
> > Well no it wouldnt encourage people to learn programming. 
> > Hmmm I dont think there is any good python IDE for the opportunistic
> > developer.
> > I dont think many experienced developers use IDEs too much. The ones I
> > know in development companies use eclipse (or different flavors of
> > eclipse) or text editors. I use netbeans in college but for python I use
> > gedit. 
> Sorry Fagan, but this is really really wrong. Almost all developers use
> Visual Studio. The rest use Eclipse or such. A few don't use IDES.
> 
> However, you are also really really right. We should make Ubuntu it's
> own IDE. This is an old unix concept that I would like us to embrace and
> bring to other programmers, new or IDE dependent.

The neatest thing about the web when it came out was that mosaic put a
"View Source" button right into the browser.  I'd daresay that little
thing got gobs of people going down the path of becoming programmers.

I've always thought that it would be slick if every desktop application
included a button in its menu to pop up its sourcecode in an IDE or
Ground Control or whatever.

Bryce