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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?

From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?
Date	2015-06-29 05:49 -0400
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On 06/29/2015 04:20 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:42:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> On 6/8/2015 10:39 AM, e.d.programmer@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:52:28 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 6/5/2015 1:35 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 05:50:03 -0700, e.d.programmer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This sounds great, if you're coding on a 486.  If you're using a
>>>>>> decent machine I'd recommend an IDE.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm interested only if said IDE can do exactly the same stuff in
>>>>> exactly the same way for any language (C, Perl, Java, awk, python and
>>>>> COBOL as a minimum set). Anything else just wastes my time having to
>>>>> learn and remember different ways of working for each language while
>>>>> a good text editor works the same way for any language and under any
>>>>> supported OS.
>>>>
>>>> There are IDE's that support many languages and many platforms and
>>>> behave as similar as possible.
>>>>
>>>> Eclipse comes to my mind.
>>>
>>> We use Eclipse for Java, Oracle Java and Android Java, so I know it
>>> supports other languages but I don't know which ones.  If it doesn't
>>> have built in support for another specific language it does support
>>> plugins which can make it support any language.  You can write your own
>>> plugins, though if the language is somewhat popular odds are someone
>>> else already wrote one.
>>
>> Everything in Eclipse is a plugin even Java.
>>
>> My experience with Eclipse and languages are:
>>
>> good support: Java, Scala, C, C++, Fortran, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby,
>> Tcl, JavaScript, Ada
>>
>> bad support: C#, Cobol (the open source one not the MicroFocus one)
>>
>> unknown support: Groovy, Clojure, Lua
>>
>> no support: PL/I, VB
>>
>> Arne
>>
>> Disclaimer: I do not know all language well enough to truly evaluate
>> capabilities and for some of the languages it is many years ago since I
>> last tried.
>
> Interesting list. Out of curiosity, how does it deal with bash SQL and awk
> scripts?
>
>
<http://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit-core-for-eclipse/features-by-language>

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Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-20 15:16 -0700
  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-05-21 20:30 -0400
  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 08:16 -0700
    Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-25 20:40 -0700
      Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 10:15 +0000
        Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2015-05-26 13:27 +0200
          Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2015-05-26 07:33 -0700
          Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 19:52 +0000
            Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-05-26 17:21 -0400
              Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 22:36 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-03 21:26 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-04 21:00 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-06-05 08:06 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:30 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-06-05 13:59 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-05 05:50 -0700
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:35 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-06 23:50 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-08 07:39 -0700
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-28 21:42 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-29 05:49 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:37 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:35 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 15:01 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:08 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:18 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-29 21:00 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-07-27 22:22 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-06 23:48 -0400

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