> Yeah, the article very conveniently ignores the "integrated" part of the IDE acronym. How's that? In unix (mostly) everything is a file, which in turn is jus

> Yeah, the article very conveniently ignores the "integrated" part of the IDE acronym. How's that? In unix (mostly) everything is a file, which in turn is just a stream of bytes that you can pass to any unix-y application, the output of which can be passed to any other unix-y application. That may not be your cup of tea or preferred environment, but it's very much integrated.