Well, yes, as a matter of fact. But I didn't want to resurrect any old editor wars. I've lived inside Emacs-based development/debugging environments for a couple of decades. Scary, no?
--Doug -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > An editor like EMACS? That way you never have to use anything else;-) > > The one cool thing that Eclipse does is extract embedded system code from a > JTAG port with a plugin from Greenhills. > > Ray Parks > > ------------------------------ > *From*: [email protected] <[email protected]> > *To*: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Sent*: Fri Mar 12 11:28:25 2010 > *Subject*: [FRIAM] Different topic > > Could someone please remind me again why so many people seem to like > Eclipse? A colleague of mine at RTI took one of my distributed C++ > applications and turned it into an Appliance via VMWare (and/or) VirtualBox. > All you have to do is run the appliance in a VM and you can emulate running > distributed applications on a cluster, all the while sitting in front of > whatever your favorite flavor of OS happens to be. > > The virtual machine is Ubuntu with OpenMPI installed, so you can emulate > bazillions of distributed machines on a single CPU, which is a pretty cool > and painless development and debugging environment. In fact the whole > "Appliance" concept and the way it was implemented is pretty cool -- wish > I'd thought of it myself. > > But, as part of the "Appliancification" process he put my app into Eclipse > inside the VM, and as I sit here trying to relearn how to navigate around in > Eclipse I find myself wondering why *anybody* would to prefer to work in > that IDE straight jacket, rather than just using an editor and Makefiles, as > Dog intended... > > --Doug > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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