OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Yigal Chripun]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>>> What I was saying was not specific for DWT but rather that _any_ 
>>>> reasonably big project will use such a system and it's simply not 
>>>> practical to do otherwise. how would you handle a project with a 
>>>> hundred  files that takes 30 min. to compile without any tool 
>>>> whatsoever except the compiler itself?
>>>
>>> Make?
>>>
>>> And if you're smart, a verson control system. (Whether you use an IDE 
>>> or not.)
>>
>> Make _is_ a build tool
> 
> Yes. But since it's on every Unix since almost 40 years back, it doesn't 
> count here.  :-)
> 
> Besides, it has tons of other uses, too. One might as well say that a 
> text editor is a build tool. You construct (or erect) software with it. ;-)
> 

Nope. it does count as an external build tool