On 11/4/09, Jim Starkey <[email protected]> wrote: > Jobin Augustine wrote: >> it appears that you hard core hackers never uses IDEs. >> anybody using them ? >> > > It all depends on what you call hard core hackers. > > Originally, hard core hackers were the guys that trampled the cutting > edge of technology with audacity. They pushed the limits and weren't > afraid to experiment. They developed OSes like Tenex and Unix, > eschewing assembler in favor of high level languages, even when they had > to invent the language to so. These hard core hackers were willing to > try anything that appeared on the scene -- objects, exception handling, > formal interfaces, and, yes, IDEs. The the stuff that worked got used > and the stuff that didn't got left behind (Objective C, anyone? Ada?). > > If you mean the contemporary definition of hard core hacker -- arrested > development adolescents -- then no, they're content to use the first
[..] Whoa grandpa! There is no need to insult arrested development. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
