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Originally Posted by edgeprod
You're going to get a flood of idiots trying to tell you that they're somehow better off with Notepad and is ilk, eschewing the integrated file management, transfers at the touch of a button, class exploration, variable and function cmpletion, and a host of other benefits. Some may even try to convince you that using an IDE means you will write poor quality code, that the IDE will somehow be doing the coding, or any number of misdirected ideas and drivel.
Ignore them, if you can. Most of the real coders do. Many of the people who say such things likely haven't even tried a modern IDE.
In any event, to answer your question, PHP Ed is my weapon of choice lately.
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Don't underestimate a powerful text editor set up and used by someone who really knows it. I've tried out several IDEs and I've done significant work in Visual Studio, the king of IDEs. Only because a know vi so well, I can get more done faster in vim than any bloated IDE. Does your IDE automatically insert proper error handling for you? My text editor does.
Yes vi has been around since 1976. Did you know that in vi when I type "open " it automatically expands to a full open statement, with proper error handling like this?:
open( , "") or die "Could not open '': $!";
Similarly "while" auto expands to:
while () {
}
So those kinds of niceties are there, but coding is really mainly editing the code, which is text. Assuming you know the language and aren't spending a lot of time in the help, coding is 90% text editing. For text editing, nothing beats a great text editor.
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