any shortcut to install all dev-related packages?

[Robert P. J. Day]

   i just found the task definition file  
/usr/share/tasksel/ubuntu-tasks.desc, but i'm disappointed that  
there's no "task" to turn my stock 10.04 laptop into a development  
workstation -- that is, installing the various compilers,  
interpreters, linkers, autotools packages, version control tools and  
so on.

   is there a meta-install incantation for that?  or do i have to pick  
and choose?  thanks.

rday