Abstemious Development

.Net Rocks interviewed Joe O'Brien on the topic of Ruby for Windows.  Joe mentioned that many Ruby developers worked in a simple text editor, rather than an elaborate IDE.  That same sentiment was echoed by Jon Snook in regards to CSS coding.  What appears as an anachronism ends up working for some leading edge developers.  The conversation gave me a new light on our current 4GL development and incorporating high level concepts to bare bones languages.