comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: New IDLDE

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: New IDLDE [message #52853 is a reply to message #52851]

Thu, 08 March 2007 12:31

Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157
Registered: April 2002

Senior Member

mgalloy@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 8, 10:20 am, Kenneth Bowman <k-bow...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>> Is Eclipse in the future for IDL?
>>
>> There's a story at the Reg titled "Developers tell Eclipse why it sucks". ;-)
>>
>> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/03/08/eclipse_sucks/
>>
>> Ken Bowman
>
> As someone who uses Eclipse regularly for development in other
> languages this brings up a couple competing issues for me:
>
> 1. Eclipse is complicated for new users. There are perspectives,
> views, editors, workspaces, projects, etc. and it is not intuitive (at
> least for me when I started) exactly what they are and how they
> interact. Everything is part of a project (which is part of a
> workspace), so what happens to the scientist who just wants to edit a
> single file, run the program, and discard it?
>
> 2. Eclipse is powerful for experienced users. But will it be difficult
> to take advantage of that because ITT VIS installs their own Eclipse
> and/or disables functionality (to streamline the process for new
> users) instead of using my system installed version?
>
> I'm hoping that the IDLDE can both be easy to use for beginners and
> play nice with other plugins for developers who want to use Eclipse
> beyond what ITT VIS provides (but I have my doubts).

I tried to use Eclipse with the Fortran (Photran) plugin. After about a day mucking about
I'm back to not using it. I achieve the same functionality with a good editor and
judicious environment variable declarations. I find GUI IDEs to be more of a hindrance
than a help.

cheers,

paulv

--
Paul van Delst Ride lots.
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC Eddy Merckx

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: New IDLDE By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:58
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:10
		Re: New IDLDE By: Robbie on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:32
		Re: New IDLDE By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:31
		Re: New IDLDE By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:04
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:40
		Re: New IDLDE By: Ben Panter on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:53
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:48
		Re: New IDLDE By: Matt[2] on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:43
		Re: New IDLDE By: Mirko on Tue, 13 March 2007 08:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Fri, 09 March 2007 06:50
		Re: New IDLDE By: swingnut on Sun, 11 March 2007 05:17
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Mon, 12 March 2007 17:15

Previous Topic:	Re: reading many files
Next Topic:	Re: randomn problem

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 14:31:41 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.47902 seconds