"Pakku" <pakku@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> I don't know if I'd dismiss IDE's out of hand so quickly. ...
> The built in animator/debugger is also really sweet.
For traditional COBOL, I primarily use the IDE for problematic debugging.
I've never seen an IDE that came anywhere close to a good programmer's
editor for sheer source editing. In COBOL, for example, there are lots of
good uses for column blocks, particularly in the DATA DIVIDSION, which
I've never seen in an IDE editor. But in an environment such as Visual
Studio, where the IDE is doing a lot of other things for you, like forms
design and IntelliSense, it makes much more sense to use the IDE for all
development. Also, most languages other than COBOL don't benefit so much
from features like column blocks. In the situations where they do, I use
Multi-Edit to do the edit and paste it into the IDE.
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