integrated development environment ==>
interactive development environment
<programming, tool> (IDE, integrated development environment) A system
for supporting the process of writing software. Such a system may include a
syntax-directed editor, graphical tools for program entry, and integrated
support for compiling and running the program and relating compilation errors
back to the source.
Such systems are typically both interactive and integrated, hence the ambiguous
acronym. They are interactive in that the developer can view and alter the
execution of the program at the level of statements and variables. They are
integrated in that, partly to support the above interaction, the source code
editor and the execution environment are tightly coupled, e.g. allowing the
developer to see which line of source code is about to be executed and the
current values of any variables it refers to.
Examples include Visual C++ and Visual Basic.
(2002-09-21)
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