Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:30:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there? Message-ID: <20060110103002.GB1415@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43C2C7FE.1010703@chuckr.org> References: <666bdb140601081330m3b394a02v@mail.gmail.com> <20060109140254.92455.qmail@web33306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <dptv94$7ft$1@sea.gmane.org> <43C2C7FE.1010703@chuckr.org>
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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. If you remove the artificial requirement of the help person being your girlfriend at the same time too, I'm sure a lot of the current Emacs users will be glad to help /me grins
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