<story><title>Unix as IDE</title><url>http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>I agree with his sentiment - it&apos;s something I have said here on HN several times - but I disagree with his word choice. Unix is not an &lt;i&gt;integrated&lt;/i&gt; development environment. To me, an IDE implies a monolithic program. Unix is not that. To differentiate it, I&apos;m tempted to say that Unix is a &lt;i&gt;distributed&lt;/i&gt; development environment to get across that the tools you use for development do not exist in one monolithic program. But I don&apos;t like that phrasing, either. Rather, I prefer this:&lt;p&gt;Unix &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a development environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyrmored</author><text>This actually occurred to me as I was writing it; I tried to decide whether it was better to call it more accurately what it was, or refer to it as something with which people were more familiar and hence have a concept to which to relate it. So for reference I actually agree with your comment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Unix as IDE</title><url>http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scott_s</author><text>I agree with his sentiment - it&apos;s something I have said here on HN several times - but I disagree with his word choice. Unix is not an &lt;i&gt;integrated&lt;/i&gt; development environment. To me, an IDE implies a monolithic program. Unix is not that. To differentiate it, I&apos;m tempted to say that Unix is a &lt;i&gt;distributed&lt;/i&gt; development environment to get across that the tools you use for development do not exist in one monolithic program. But I don&apos;t like that phrasing, either. Rather, I prefer this:&lt;p&gt;Unix &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a development environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhd</author><text>Yes, one might say that the &quot;I&quot; part of IDE is there to differentiate it from the typical Unix style.&lt;p&gt;Kernighan and Pike called their book &quot;The Unix Programming Environment&quot; (sooo highly recommended), so I&apos; go with &quot;PE&quot; instead of the high-falutin&apos; &quot;DE&quot;.</text></comment>