IDE

[Georg Wrede]

One Wise Monkee wrote:
> In article <dtihv7$2vtm$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, David Rasmussen says...
> 
>>Are there IDEs out there that support D natively?
>>Are there IDEs out there that even come with D preinstalled?
>>Is there a debugger for D? And a profiler?
>>Is there an IDE that comes with D, a debugger for D and a profiler for D?
> 
> http://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3

Heh, I read the article, and found myself agreeing with every point in it.

Kernel work is such a serious thing that the faint should be gotten rid 
of as fast as possible. And the bit about not having a debugger forces 
you to think what the _program_ does vs. what a single line of code 
does, was just succinctly said.

At the end I found it signed Linus. I was proud to have agreed on the 
points, and I was ashamed to not having noticed the author's name right 
at the top.

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Now, D is IMHO an excellent First Language. And some people really seem 
to find debuggers useful. Personally I never use them, because I find 
myself distracted and concentrating on the debugger instead of thinking 
of the problem.

With D, let folks have debuggers if they want. But to become a real 
programmer, one should learn to bike without the baby wheels.

Then again, not everybody should even try to become a Real Programmer. 
Even the VB crowd can find jobs suitable for them. In the future, also in D.