Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
Just a flashy abbreviation used by geeks meaning "Integrated Development Environment". Whilst different IDE's have different features and can do different things, they generally share an Editor, a way of tracking your resource usage (eg variables, RAM, Beer consumption etc), encompass a simulator of sorts, and have an easy way of launching your compiler with the wrong settings. They'll tell you when your syntax is wrong when you know damn well it isn't, communicate flawlessly via their RS232 simulator when in the real world it doesn't happen, and use up your grey-matter that's better directed elsewhere. They are somebody's ideal way of writing programs - somebody's sure, but rarely yours. Since they don't make and bring the coffee, that's where I lose interest with them...

"Launching your compiler with the wrong settings" ROTF!!! Launching your programmer with the wrong settings too! Why cant MCSP and ICPROG just work together?! LOL (Note: The can play nice but it takes a lot of work and still have to select PIC manualy in ICPROG)