Re: IDE or RAD tools

Hi Terry,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Terry Fielder wrote:

> Can anyone recommend any Iintegrated Development Environment or Rapid
> Application Development tools for hooking upto a PostgrSQL database?
>
> In particular, I am looking for something that develops for Linux,
> because that is what my server is, and I want the users to work thin
> client.

Unix (and therefore Linux) differ very much from Windows
environmentally. One of the best things about a GNU Unix systems is that
you basically have every possible tool at your finger tips. You should
consider the shell your IDE or RAD environment.

Need text highlighting?    -> Vim (some will say Emacs - they can both do it)

Need function definition marking? -> Vim/Emacs/grep

Debugging I hear you say -> GDB

Plug into Postgres to test a database schema or load -> /bin/sh + psql or
perl or make + psql

This is just a beginning. There is a reason why there are so few IDE/RAD
tools for Unix - Unix systems lend themselves to rapid developerment. You
could go down the Kylix (by Borland) road, but then you'd be developing
for Interbase; you could check out some of the desktop environment IDEs,
but then you'd be playing around with GTK+ or Qt.

Generally speaking, if you put a good programmer in front of a RAD or IDE,
he or she becomes less productive - just one more thing to
learn. Programmers type, they don't point and click =)

Hope this helps

Gavin