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And it completely falls apart when you want to change the type or scope of a variable, for example, to enhance a program. I admit is had some limited benefit for the old days when lanuages and development environments were primitive. But these days, it is pretty useless.
But it seems to me that they don't care, and are instead banking on the ignorance of the bulk of the world.
I use SlickEdit on Windows 2000 almost daily, but it's very unstable. It crashes at least once a week. It's good about recovering afterwards, but it's still an incovenience. After all, an editor shouldn't crash more than the OS!
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And it completely falls apart when you want to change the type or scope of a variable, for example, to enhance a program.
I admit is had some limited benefit for the old days when lanuages and development environments were primitive. But these days, it is pretty useless.
I use SlickEdit on Windows 2000 almost daily, but it's very unstable.
It crashes at least once a week. It's good about recovering afterwards, but it's still an incovenience. After all, an editor shouldn't crash more than the OS!