Re: A constructive debate: Eclipse or NetBeans?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:

believe people only use them because they feel more comfortable with a
GUI but, when the GUI is this complicated and unintuitive, I think you
have to question whether or not a command line is better.

It's better, for some things. It's far less productive, for others.

Is there anything language-agnostic that is more difficult with a command
line?

If you use an editor, you have already switched from command line to a
more interactive user interface. Unless you really use a line editor,
which I doubt. Why not go a little further and see what abstractions lie
above the level of general text editors? See my previous post where I
describe the tricks Eclipse can do for you, like refactorings.

- Ville Oikarinen
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