UNIX is an IDE
UNIX is an IDE
Posted Jul 16, 2004 14:09 UTC (Fri) by ctg (guest, #3459)In reply to: Miguel is an idiot by dskoll
Parent article: More than an open-source curiosity (News.com)
I pretty much agree with you.
UNIX is an integrated development environment - going right back to the days of the "Programmer's Workbench" concept (and probably before).
However, it does lend itself to more systems type programming - once you get into the world of modern GUIs then things are more complex - I suspect Miguel thinks only of GUI development. But as GUIs aren't part of UNIX - I don't really see how this relates to UNIX. If he means anything at all he means "some of the GUI toolkits that you get can be quite hard for me to program". Low level X programming can certainly be quite tricky.