1 Nov
2002
1 Nov
'02
11:55 a.m.
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, John Allain wrote:
So I'm looking for what you out there have voted
for as your programming
environments (for those of you who program, probably over 50%).
All of my recent projects (for the last year), paid and/or academic, have
been Java projects. I currently use NetBeans 3.4 as my Java IDE, with JDK
1.4.0, and it works very well. I do love Java.
All of the C/C++ development I've done has been in a UNIX environment, and
my 'I'DE there was GCC, Emacs, and all the other GNU tools.
The only Windows development I've done has been with Visual Basic, and that
has either been with VB6 or directly inside a MS Office app. VB is great for
throwing together quick-and-dirty apps, but attempting to work outside that
core capability profile generates only frustration. Example: multithreading.
You can do it (sort of) in VB6, but it requires things like invisible
windows with timer controls and other sorts of kludges.
--
Jeffrey Sharp