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Asked: 2026-05-17T19:36:27+00:00

this question, though has nothing to do with the programming stuff, gets me bugged

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this question, though has nothing to do with the programming stuff, gets me bugged while I try to delve deeper a bit. I am confused with what this IDE means. somewhere it says its an editor or somewhere like its some PHP editor. I use dreamweaver normally and notepad ++ occasionally .. Is this what IDE is ? or is that I have misunderstood things.??

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  1. Editorial Team

    An integrated development environment is generally a whole bunch of tools integrated into one.

    This includes editor, compiler, debugger and whatever other tools you may want to add.

    Back in pre-history, we used to use an editor to edit the files, then we would exit and use a compiler, then a linker to produce the final product (actually, when I first started, we used punch cards and 80×25 data entry sheets and handed them to data entry operators for input into the computer, but I don’t want to bore the youngsters among you).

    Nowadays we just press the F5 key or, if you use Emacs,

         CTRLALTMETAOPEN-APPLEATTNLEFT-SHIFTRIGHT_SHIFTB

    while holding our heads inclined at an angle of 22.5o to the Earth’s magnetic field and biting the head off a chicken 🙂

    Some IDEs (such as Eclipse) provide a plug-in environment where people can create plug-ins to add many tools to the standard ones. Think in terms of:

    • source code control and versioning.
    • support for multiple (computer) languages.
    • refactoring tools.
    • direct publishing of applications to environments (such as EAR files to an application server).
    • extraction of strings for internationalisation

    and so on, ad near infinitum.

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