On Mar 15, 11:49 am, "Judson McClendon" <ju...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Pakku" <pa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> --
OK- that makes sense. Thanks!
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