From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 15:10:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09231 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:10:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09226 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA02678; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:52:21 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603192322.JAA02678@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: GAS question To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:52:20 +1030 (CST) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603192030.NAA24685@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 19, 96 01:30:48 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > You're arguements against using Emacs apply as well to VC++, so are > > moot. > > Not so. I can click Icon's and menus without having to remember it. Ah. So you haven't actually _compared_ the two then. Or hadn't you realised that Xemacs' IDE has clickable (and programmable) icons, menus, language-sensitive syntax colourisation, paren-checking, automatic language-sensitive indentation (programmable to cover almost any indentation style) etc. ad nauseam. It's obviously been a while 8) > parity by learning all the secrets than someone dropped naked in > front of Emacs (or vi, or into writing a makefile, for that matter). Don't buy it. If the victim is a halfway competent programmer, then they'll have the nousse to work themselves out quickly enough. If they're a trained monkey, you don't want them in the first place. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[