Re: c/c++ project management and debugging

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> Moreover, when your heavily customized Emacs start to "misbehave" what
> can you do?  Start "emacs -Q" and begin evaluating sexps.  Oh, what an
> advanced debugging aid!  

Contrarily to IDEs, emacs has a true debugger, and a true REPL, and a
whole lisp development environment.

The fact that emacs is sometimes heavily customized says something very
bad about IDEs: they cannot be customized easily!


> Come on, Pascal, IDEs have something to teach.

Yes.  That they're to be flown away as fast as you can.

They should also recall to those who forgot it, that humans are persons
who process the verb.  Our brains are hard wired for speach, to listen,
to speak, and to read and write.  This is what distinguish us from
animals.

A graphical user interface letting you build "sentences" from icons may
be good and nice for chimps who lack the neurons to process the verb,
but for us it's easier to just talk or write.  (And if we must compare
the civilization and technological output, I'd say that it's way more
powerful too!).


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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.