Religious Wars (was: Re: KDevelop vs. Eclipse vs. Emacs)

This is off-topic to the topic which I raised, and to which people
answered only by replying to someone else, who had different issues.

However, the topic of religious (or holy) wars in this context is an
interesting topic to explore at its own right, so I'm accepting the
challenge.

It seems to me that religious wars are about choice between two (or
more) approaches, which are more or less equivalent - but require some
time investment to switch from one to the other.

The famous example of vi vs. emacs religious war illustrates this point.
Both editors are powerful text editors, and both have some sort of
scripting capabilities.  However, to switch from one to the other
requires some time investment - to learn the other editor, to cultivate
different mental habits, to re-create one's personal list of scripts,
tips, riffs and shortcuts.

However, people typically do not defend their editor choices by invoking
the expense of conversion to the other editor.  They prefer to invent
all kinds of arguments to justify their original editor choice, made 10
years ago.

                                --- Omer

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:43 -0700, Omer Shapira wrote:
> Is this a holy war?
> 
> On 8/26/07, Omer Zak <w1-W6cp89mEpD1mR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
>         Currently I use emacs and makefiles to develop code in
>         projects, which
>         use C++, Python and PHP.
>         I am considering whether to switch to a "true" IDE, such as
>         KDevelop or
>         Eclipse.
>         
>         What is the community's opinion about IDEs?
>         Any other Free Software IDEs I overlooked?
>         Which IDE is, in your opinion, better and for which
>         language/s?

-- 
My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory;
and its display device is grievously short of pixels.  Can anyone help?
My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/

My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone.
They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which
I may be affiliated in any way.
WARNING TO SPAMMERS:  at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html