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by marcosdumay 2195 days ago
It's the job to run programs somewhere. Or do you think all those people entering a CS course expect to work on theoretical research?

And from all the places available for running software, the most useful ones (servers, supercomputers, embedded) lack an IDE.
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chrisseaton 2195 days ago
My point is the precise technical details of how to run one particular language in one particular environment are irrelevant and not the business of a university. You can pick up this practical skill anytime you need.

You're supposed to be learning the concepts. You can do that using an IDE.

I have no idea how to run an Erlang program on a server. Could I pick it up in five minutes if I needed to? Sure. So why do I need to learn it? Why do you care if I can do it coming out of university?

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marcosdumay 2195 days ago
> Could I pick it up in five minutes if I needed to? Sure.

Yes, because you do know the basic concepts of using a CLI, the concepts around building your project, and the concepts of project metadata, build tools and etc.

When people can't run their programs without an IDE, it's because they don't know any of that. This is an at minimum 6 months learning of the unwritten culture of a profession. This is not something one can pick up in 5 minutes. It is also a huge signal that those people are missing other fundamental and important pieces of knowledge.

(That is, unless the OP is literally complaining that he threw people on a random computer CLI and people couldn't make their code run there. Personally, I have never seen anybody making this point, but I guess it's possible.)

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