Re: Java IDE shootout

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From: D'Arcy Smith
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00

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Tom Dimock wrote:

> You will no doubt find passionate advocates for all of the IDE's you list,
> plus some that you didn't.  We originally started out using Visual Cafe, but
> most of our staff have now converted to JBuilder2.  Why?  VC crashed too
> often, was too sensitive to mods made to generated code 

BTW, VCafe 3.0 removed the limitation of editing between the //{{ 
blocks.

> I'm sure that the Symantec folks will say that none of our problems
> exist in the current version, and they may be right.  

Won't say none - but it is more stable than 2.x.


> The IDE's change so fast
> that any evaluation has a very limited span of validity.  

100% correct.

..darcy

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D'Arcy Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Symantec, Internet Tools Division

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From: D'Arcy Smith <nospam@itools.symantec.com>
Subject: Re: Java IDE shootout
Date: 1999/01/20
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