Well, I’ve always liked the Programmer’s File Editor which is quite configurable and has a lot of features I like, but it isn’t being updated or supported anymore.
I use Visual Studio, but with Brief emulation turned on. It works surprisingly well.
I hear Dev C++ is good, it’s free too and build on top of the GNU compiler.
I use EditPad Pro to edit programs and plain text files alike, I love it.
Oh and vim rules, emacs sucks.
another vote for eclipse for java editing, haven’t tried using it for other languages. I love the fact that it compiles the files as you edit/save them, and highlights your errors for you right away. Very handy.
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- Feh, sissies. Real programmers type hex into hview.
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- Feh, sissies. Real programmers type hex into hview.
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- To the OP: there’s a couple distinctions here: VB is rather nice because it’s a drag-and-drop interface also. To make buttons or whatever you use the mouse, and to enter code “into” the button, you just double-click on it. MS’s stuff is like that, and some of Borland’s software is also (CBuilder and JBuilder), but neither is free legitimately. I have not come across any software like that for free.
- If you want something for free, then download the Sun Java SDK and a front-end such as JCreator. JCreator doesn’t have drag-and-drop GUI components but if you find constraint-based Java GUI construction mystifying then look online for info on using the [null] layout manager: using it, you just give X-Y coordinates for the top left and bottom right corners of your components on the window and they stay right where you tell them to. (as I have seen it with many students, doing GUI layouts are often a vexing part of Java programming)
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