Can you suggest some Windows programming tools for a very rusty, very amateur programmer?
I’m not sure how much “I” I’m looking for. Part of what I’m interested in is how the world of programming has developed in the last 15+ years while I’ve been off doing other things, so I suppose I’d prefer more of it rather than less. That’s largely why I don’t want to go with something like vim; I love it for editing config files on my Linux box, but would like to see what more modern tools look like. It’s been a week or so since I tried to install the MS package, so I don’t recall the exact error it gave me, just that it was about the most spectacularly unhelpful error message I’ve ever seen. Something along the lines of “the package has failed to install correctly” would not be far from the mark. It then gave me a chance to submit the info to MS through their feedback agent, but doing that didn’t give me any help, or any clues. I’ll try it again through the direct link, if I can get their accursed passport ID to work again, but I’m not too optimistic. Both Eclipse and Bloodshed look
