VMS vs. UNIX s/w development tools - query

[Piet van Oostrum]

In article <401 at bionov.UUCP>, rayl at bionov (Ray Lillard) writes:

	    I have extolled the virtues of the UNIX software 
 `environment and have been told that .....

My question is: What do people generally consider to be a ``software
development environment''. Is it something like the collection of tools
that Unix has or is there much more in it, for example tools for the
specification and design parts of the software life cycle.

What experience do you have with additional tools in the Unix environment?
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