Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rui Maciel Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to develop without an IDE? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:03:32 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <17227321.23.1335224680979.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbvd8> Reply-To: rui.maciel@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: AqItoBXOUTdaiWbH4r55cA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13849 Lew wrote: > Rui Maciel wrote: >> I would prefer to develop >> a skill which I already have than being forced to start from scratch by >> being forced to use another tool. > > The sound of the career death knells tolling. You are assuming that everyone's career depends on how well they are able to manually set up an ant build script to build a Java project. That's a bad assumption. I would bet that a significant number of people who write Java code for a living never bothered to manually tweak an ant build script, let alone took the time to learn that tool. Rui Maciel