Re: Professional IDE for a cross-platform Perl application

Bob wrote:
David Squire wrote:

which is in complete agreement with what people here have been saying.
GUI construction and other framework-type elements are an optional
extra, not part of the core idea of an IDE.

Not at all. Wikipedia's page is in complete disagreement with them. By
cathegorizing A in B, for any A and B, one means that B is more general
than A, or A is a special case or part of B. Wikipedia says that A (the
framework) is part of B (the IDE).

It does not say that. It says that an IDE *can* include a framework, not that it must - in the text, not in the categories (and a simple tree of categories cannot handle nuances such as this, unless the arcs are labelled).

What people have been saying here is
that A (the framework) is "not part of" B (the IDE), which is exactly
the negation of the above statement.

.... but the original statement is a misrepresentation.

You have conveniently snipped the text of the definition itself, which contradicts your reading of the category tree. IDEs and frameworks are separate things. An IDE can exist without including a framework of libraries etc., though some IDEs do incorporate framework elements. Likewise, a framework can exist without an IDE - I don't need to use an IDE to use the Tk GUI building framework, for example.

The statements "A can include B" and "A must include B" are not equivalent.


DS
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