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Integrated Design Environments (IDE) are development environment for programming languages, for example the Delphi programming language. IDEs minimally consist of an editor?, a compiler and a debugger?. Sometimes a version control system, as well as various GUI builders can be integrated.

IDEs were pioneered as an alternative to the makefile? system of program building, whereby configuration files were written in addition to code, which described options of how the compiler was to operate. Previously all the programs neccesary for building a program had to be operated by hand. IDEs removed this layer of complication by controlling this collection of tools, now usually under a graphical front-end.

The most popular IDE today is Microsoft Visual Basic, which is also one of the simplest to use. For more complex work in the windows environment, however, programmers usually choose Visual C++ or Delphi (based on the pascal programming language). The new C# (C-sharp) is thought to eventually supercede Visual C++.

Under the Linux environment many programmers still use makefiles and their derivatives, however IDEs are becoming increasingly popular. KDEs environment Kdevelop is an emerging IDE.


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Edited December 2, 2001 8:16 pm by Sodium (diff)
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