Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse
by thewebcount on Saturday April 11, 2020 @09:59PM
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> What makes the CLI interface to the compiler more essential of an abstraction than a GUI interface to the compiler? Just that it is simpler
It's not simpler! It's way more confusing to figure out that your make file told your compiler to run a command with some unknown set of obscure options that are causing an error than to just have the IDE pop a dialog and tell you in plain words, or better, not even let you set an option incorrectly in the first place.
It's not simpler! It's way more confusing to figure out that your make file told your compiler to run a command with some unknown set of obscure options that are causing an error than to just have the IDE pop a dialog and tell you in plain words, or better, not even let you set an option incorrectly in the first place.