A dead baby, floating
young robert, drowned in the lake
now we call him 'bob'
This poem really reminds me of your situation.
Eclipse 2.0 is going to rock!
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PhysicsGenius
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Consider this feature list:
Coded throughput on the backend buffer list
Memory-enabled instruction parameters
Rationalized ERQ management
Bus-mastered bit copying with fully XOR-compatible flip-flopping
JIT file saving
This is great news for Linux!
Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54
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Anonymous Coward
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Re:Proprietary solutions will always lose
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__past__
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While I agree that the Java situation sucks (but hey - so does the language;-), I strongly doubt that.NET is a good alternative. I don't think there will ever be a fully functional, non-Microsoft, Free version. And, unfortunatly, S. Ballmer doesn't either, at least that's what he told the german computer magazine iX.
Lack of usability kills it
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Anonymous Coward
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I really wanted to like Eclipse. I really really wanted to. But the thing is so darn perverse! Everything that existing IDEs do one way, it does the other way for no reason. For example, every IDE I've ever used will automatically save your file when you compile it. Eclipse will compile your file when you save it. It even lacks a compile button. Can you imagine? An IDE that doesn't have a compile button! And despite the pretty GUI, it's confusing as heck. I've been using GUI apps since they first existed, and I rarely come across one that I need to read the whole manual to figure out. I found Eclipse totally opaque without reading the manual.
They use totally nonstandard terminology, too. For example, they never talk about source code or files, it's always "resources." It took me a long time to figure out they call a source sontrol branch a "stream," as if stream didn't mean enuogh different things already.
They really don't care about making a decent IDE. Read their mission statement and notice what an afterthought the mention of users is. They want to make a fancy platform for building plugins and language independent tools, and the Java tools are secondary. It shows.
And it's got nasty bugs in it, too. One time it deleted ALL my SOURCE files! Good thing I had them backed up! I got a personal apology from the development team for that one.
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all i can say.... sigh
young robert, drowned in the lake
now we call him 'bob'
This poem really reminds me of your situation.
This is great news for Linux!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
So, how about creating great stuff ourselves?
Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
I really wanted to like Eclipse. I really really wanted to. But the thing is so darn perverse! Everything that existing IDEs do one way, it does the other way for no reason. For example, every IDE I've ever used will automatically save your file when you compile it. Eclipse will compile your file when you save it. It even lacks a compile button. Can you imagine? An IDE that doesn't have a compile button! And despite the pretty GUI, it's confusing as heck. I've been using GUI apps since they first existed, and I rarely come across one that I need to read the whole manual to figure out. I found Eclipse totally opaque without reading the manual.
They use totally nonstandard terminology, too. For example, they never talk about source code or files, it's always "resources." It took me a long time to figure out they call a source sontrol branch a "stream," as if stream didn't mean enuogh different things already.
They really don't care about making a decent IDE. Read their mission statement and notice what an afterthought the mention of users is. They want to make a fancy platform for building plugins and language independent tools, and the Java tools are secondary. It shows.
And it's got nasty bugs in it, too. One time it deleted ALL my SOURCE files! Good thing I had them backed up! I got a personal apology from the development team for that one.
My advice: stay away.