Exactly, that was in the past....this is 2014; we don't necessarily need to use things from the past, when there is something else new that perform better
Do you still drive your old carburetor car from the 70s? Do you still use an 8086, green phosphor monitor and textual OS? You may, but why would you, other than for a nostalgic/habit reason? I own an old car because I love that specific model, but I have as main car an hybrid, which is fairly new...cost less to maintain, less to own My point is not that you can't use it; just that won't make any sense, if you have better options. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:55:00 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Karl Longen <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > BTW you have never tried to code pages and pages using just VI > > probably.... > > > I have used it since some time in the mid 1980s, so I am fairly > familiar with it - and it's available on *every* platform I program on > which is a big advantage. (Not to mention that I use it for composing > E-Mail, Usenet messages, etc.) > > > > Any person in their right state of mind would not use VI, unless you > are > > writing short programs (like shell script), or very simple > applications. > > Renounce to auto correction, color syntax, auto completion, and a ton > more > > of functionalities, when you are coding millions of lines, is not > > Er, have you looked at recent versions of vi! :-) > > > > different from running win 3.1 on a modern computer :) > > As much as I love terminal, there are things that are not feasible > without > > a good text editor with plenty of functions; without even mentioning > the > > pros of a real IDE, when you need to debug and such. > > > As I said, editor in one window, make in the next, testing in the next > (i.e. the debugger). > > I'm semi-retired now but I used to work on systems with several > million lines of code, everyone used either EMACS or vi. > > -- > Chris Green > ยท > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
