> at least it works for sane languages, like Java. You lost me here. > I don't see how "UNIX as an IDE" delivers this. Have you read the linked series of art

> at least it works for sane languages, like Java. You lost me here. > I don't see how "UNIX as an IDE" delivers this. Have you read the linked series of articles? The author explains and provide examples with C and Perl, Iirc there's a book about working with Makefiles in Java, so it's totally doable, painful, but doable.