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I have recently started a new job which requires me to work in both Visual Studio 2008 and NetBeans 6.1. I love both IDEs and often wish I could get a mashup of the two. This points out to me how the IDE has become such an important part of modern software development. When I started programming in the mid-eighties programs where written in a text editor, or an interpreter that behaved a lot like a text editor, and then compiled (or interpreted) and ran separately. At that time everyone argued about what language was the most powerful and productive. I am starting to wonder if the language is losing its relevance and the IDE is what makes the programmer productive? Probably not yet.