Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:40:08 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there? Message-ID: <20060110134008.8285.qmail@web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060110103002.GB1415@flame.pc>
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--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2006-01-09 15:30, Chuck Robey > <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > >JD Arnold wrote: > >> That's why you should graduate to Emacs - > with the makefile syntax > >> highlighting, you'll at least see the > differences between tabs and > >> spaces before getting into trouble due to > bad whitespacing!-) > > > > you're certainly giving a viewpoint that has > a great deal of > > truth to it, but I guess what scares folks is > the horrible, > > horrible emacs learning curve,. At one point > in my career (in > > school, lisp programming) I learned/used > emacs. I admit, it's > > got so much power, there isn't even a close > competitor. BUT at > > that time, I had a genius girl programmer at > my side, and she > > helped me with emacs syntax so heavily it was > funny, and so I > > could make use of emacs without really having > to scale the > > learning curve. > > > > If I'd actually had to scale that learning > curve, do you think > > I would have, even COULD have used emacs? > One of the worst > > things I had happen, I needed, one year > later, to go back to vi > > for a job, and just forgot enough emacs > usages, and never went > > back. I'd love to, but I'd have to find > another genius Lisp > > girlfriend, before I could do that. > > > > Likely? That's why emacs isn't the world's > most popular editor/IDE. I had a girlfriend with a Lisp. But what a body! DT __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
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