IDE's are mental crutches and I wouldn't hire a "programmer" that need to use one

Am I the only person old enough to remember similar things being said about full-screen as opposed to line based editors ;-)

The line between an editor and and IDE is a fuzzy one. An IDE isn't a crutch, it's a tool. They can be used well or badly.

Sure I can write Java and Objective C in a plain text editor. Sometimes I do. However I'm damned if I'm going to stop using things like XCode and Eclipse which give me useful features like integrated reference material, automated refactorings, integrated distributed compilation, source control integration, test framework integration, etc. out of some misguided idea of programming purity.

One of the many reasons I'm looking forward to Perl 6 is that the OO system has much better reflection capabilities which means that writing automated tools to do things like extract-method are going to be way easier than in Perl 5. The more things I can get my editor/IDE to do for me the better, that way I can spend more time on producing useful code.

Of course real programmers just whistle down the phone at 400 baud.