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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Milde who wrote (17280)	6/22/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Mike I'm a old vi' guy too but a good IDE makes programmers much more productive. If you don't use the GUI palletes at least you've got... 1. Colour coded code; this is a big bonus. 2. Auto indent, brace, bracket etc. 3. Visual class browser. 4. Integrated debugger. 5. Integrated help ; for Java no need to have multiple browser windows open for docs. 'vi' is okay for whipping up some 'C'/shell scripts but once you get used to an IDE you'll see the difference. Also for Java I find Wintel builds under Symantec many orders of magnitutde faster than command line JDK builds on my Ultrasparc. /James