> interesting, that's the answer in the supercomputing world too. Interesting. I'm tutoring high school students in a programming contest right now. They are writing their codes with emacs/vi and running their MPI jobs on Origin 2k.
One of the contestants told me .NET was a far better interface for programming, which included everything like editor, compiler, debugger, online manuals and what not. Actually, he even showed me debugging fruently on .NET. I rather felt old then... # no flame intended --
