the only tools real men need:
gcc
GNU make
vim
GNU midnight commander (pushing it)
and for developing network apps:
tcpdump
for reading documentation:
links or lynx
less
and general woodling of your source files:
the UNIX trinity (sed, awk, grep)
Those tools are good for the lady coders too

Ultra manly:
echo int main() { >manly.c
echo printf("I am too manly for you\n"); >>manly.c
echo return 0; >>manly.c
echo } >>manly.c
gcc -o manly manly.c
./manly
gcc
GNU make
vim
GNU midnight commander (pushing it)
and for developing network apps:
tcpdump
for reading documentation:
links or lynx
less
and general woodling of your source files:
the UNIX trinity (sed, awk, grep)
BSD make is also nifty.
midnight commander is unnecessary.
Something like cscope is also useful.
I will not comment on the manliness of the tools, that's silly ;p
BSD make is the make of pandas!
BSD make sucks though, as it is not GNU make
Visual Studio .NET EE
C#
NUnit
FxCop
Notepad
way to go!!!
Dont forget NAnt and subversion!!!!
I am experiementing with cruisecontrol.
Delphi is cool too.
but the new managed C++ seems to be fairly good
My choice tools C#,C++(unmanaged and managed), C, Delphi (unmanaged and managed)
tho
in all honesty I am making money from filemaker hardly a robust dev environment but nevertheless lucarative
C is a language, not a dev tool
C is a language, not a dev tool
C is a way of life
C coders never die, they're simply cast into (void);
Real developers use BCPL.
Evolutionary tree of C:
A-0
|
FORTRAN 0
|
ALGOL 58
|
ALGOL 60 -> Pascal (dead branch)
Delphi???