Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:23:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, jdp@polstra.com, nate@sneezy.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GAS question Message-ID: <199603192323.QAA25206@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603192322.JAA02678@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 20, 96 09:52:20 am
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> > > 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) It has buttons; I'll give you that. They don't do the same (or as many) "IDE things" as Microsoft's ompeting buttons. [ ... ] > 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. Trained monkeys write most of todays applications. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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