Re: Intergrated Development Environments

Richard Heathfield wrote
(in article
<dmj9ph$4hb$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>> So my question is this:
>> Could anyone give me any pointers on where to get or information on
>> IDEs where they came from (I'm assuming they're just the evolution of
>> plain old text editors)
>
> I could be wrong, but I'd guess that Borland wrote the first IDE. In fact, I
> believe they coined the term.

They probably did coin it, but there were prior art examples,
even codeview for DOS could be construed as getting partial
credit, although good old cscope was earlier, IIRC with anothr
partial answer.

>> and examples of them (I'm not sure but Eclipse
>> looks to be the most popular amongst open source people and Visual
>> Studio for Microsoft programmers).
>
> I prefer the bash IDE. It's way cool.

I still miss a real Korn shell, with set -o vi. :-)

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