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  I've blogged for so long, I'm beginning to forget what I've blogged about

Heh. Here I was, getting ready to post about The IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) Divide [1] when, searching for past entries about my dislike of
IDEs, I found out I already did [2] (three years ago!).

This time, I definitely identified with being a language maven, but I can
certainly understand the lure of being a tool maven. When programming, it's
not uncommon for me to have half a dozen (or more) terms open, editing code,
viewing a few header files, a few man pages open, and a command line sitting
ready for compiling. I'm not much on syntax highlighting, but automatic code
completion would definitly be nice, or perhaps a form of running commentary
on the code [3].

[1] http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/11/27.2
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/09/08.1

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