jdray's Journal: What features make a good Unix development environment?

I find myself in a position to influence, if not define our corporate deployment of development tools on our Unix servers, a mixture of Solaris and AIX environments, and asking Slashdot seemed to be a prudent stop on my research trail.

Our environment is like this: Most of the development is in Perl and KShell with a little CShell, Ruby and Python for flavor. Development teams are expected to maintain their own libraries of Perl modules and whatnot, so access to bulid tools for .pm files is required. Access to systems is done through SSH, typically using PuTTY or some similar commercial SSH client, with file access done through SFTP or SCP. Most of our users edit with vi; vim would add syntax highlighting if we deployed it. What other features should I be looking for? What tool suggestions do you have?

vim is nice

[ak3ldama]

i do my unix development through putty as well (not for a job though, but for my final comp sci classes). vim is nice, color coding helps for sure. i worked with C code though, so that's the extent of what i have to say. other than that i feel sorry for the poor souls working with perl and ksh all day.

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[jdray]

Well, as they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

KShell has its limitations, for sure, but it sure is handy for a lot of things, particularly short, non-interactive scripts that just need to get a few things done quickly.