Thanks for the link; interesting read. Unless I interpret JG's answer incorrectly(?), I think the opposite: Emacs is not for the low end developer.
Thomas L Roche writes: > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102856,00.html > Q: >> What projects are you working on now for Sun? > > A: >> For me, (inventing) Java is 10 years ago, so I decided a couple of >> years ago, it's time to get on with my life. So I went back to the >> research lab at Sun, and lately I've been on a developer-tool >> project. There aren't a lot of people building IDEs (integrated >> development environments). And IDEs are generally targeted at >> low-end developers -- people who are not experts at writing code. >> And if you look for tools that are oriented toward (those) people, >> you basically find nothing. The No. 1 tool (in that area) is Emacs, >> and I was kind of the guy responsible for the original Emacs, 23 >> years ago. One of the things I find frightening is it's still >> around, and in many ways it hasn't really changed. Is that the best >> you can do for a (low-end) developer? I don't think so. > >
