Found out from "just another tech blog" that NetBeans (now at version 6.7.1) was a full IDE for Python, Ruby, PHP and offers several server bundles if you want to write and test webapps locally. I picked the C/C++ bundle because I thought it might be fun to work with constant database CDB at some point.

Then, postponing the installation of a module for my beloved Ruby, I selected five plugins for 25 MB -- Python, Jython, P&Jsample projects, of course nbgit to integrate Git with netbeans and of course Ant. Better AntGeorge than JavaGeorge, I always say.

I click the checkbox that said "install in background" and eventually am rewarded with the Netbeans icon: an ugly silver cube. I prefer Smultron's wild strawberry. Both Netbeans and Smultron offer good ways of not filling your work editor's recently-used files list with garbage, when you have to work for a few moments on something else.

It turns out Netbeans is not bad for Python. You press F6 to run your code, and you can stop your programs by clicking an X at the very bottom right of the Netbeans window border.

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