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More to XCode than you thought.

Developing Cross-Platform UNIX Applications with Mac OS X

This is kind of cool:

Using Xcode
It may not be immediately obvious, but Xcode understands Perl, Ruby, and Python files and will highlight keywords and strings in color as well as provide indentation support and pop-up symbol navigation.

Cool. Any way to set up XCode as an "external editor" for BBEdit?

Also sort of interesting to find out that you can actually build regular 'nix software via XCode via a "GNU Make" project. Though I'm still not sure this has any advantage over the ./configure ; make ; make install dance. Interesting nonetheless, and I'll definitely play with XCode on my Powerbook this evening.