Re: Extending Python Syntax with @

From: Josiah Carlson (jcarlson_at_nospam.uci.edu)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:34:05 -0800

>>Personally, I find most standard IDEs to be bloated pieces of ***.
>>When did it become reasonable to need 100+ megs to edit source code?
>
> Not all IDEs are this large. For instance, Apple's Project Builder
> (version 2.1) is 2.6 MB, while the Mac version of CodeWarrior Pro 8 is
> 9.9 MB. These sizes are just the executables, and don't include
> compilers, linkers, libraries, headers, documentation and examples. But
> you would need all these things for a command line based development
> environment.

I never said /all/, I said /most/.

In the same vein as your reply, a standard Python install is somewhere
around 30 megs and includes Idle (not quite an IDE, but it gets the job
done). DJGPP (a c/c++ compiler for dos) is also around 30 megs
installed, and includes an IDE, compiler, linker, libaries, headers, etc.

However, if we were to take a look at some standard tools that current
university students and even a measurable portion of industry
professionals use; Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, and others, you'll note
the tendency of bloat.

  - Josiah