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There are plenty of cases where cars are not faster. For example, if I want to buy some milk or a newspaper, it is much faster to walk to my local shop than it would be to get out my car, drive there, find somewhere to park, etc; if I want to visit another city, it can be a lot faster to cycle to the station and take a train. And if I want to visit another continent, my car is totally useless! In short, the car is only the fastest solution for a certain type of journey (a distance of between maybe 2 and 100 miles, or to a destination that is not well served by public transport). In the same way, an IDE is only obviously superior to a general-purpose text editor like vi or emacs for a certain type of programming project. For enterprise architecture in Java, an IDE has big advantages. But for short programs that glue a couple of CPAN modules together for a one-off task? It's probably quicker to walk.
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You are 100% correct.
I think that the point is that I'm always thinking in medium to big projects, where we have at least 4 developers, and an IDE to manage the code and share it, thing that Eclipse does very well, is very important.
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Hey! I'm not against IDEs... just so long as the text editing mode has a full vi mapping, I'm set.
There is such a thing as having the best of both worlds.
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