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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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