On Thu, June 7, 2007 3:44 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:14:59PM -0700: >> I had a sig in an old sig file from an uber-developer to the effect of >> "I'd crawl across a hundred yards of visual-this and integrated-that to >> get to gcc and gdb on a console." > > A compiler, a console, and a decent editor. > >> I guess to some people Alt-F[2-6] _is_ an IDE. > > It worked for me, back in the day. >
Let the record show that Stewart was not the uber-developer in question. But I thought of vi (and how much I hated it when I first was learning it, and how much I love it now) as I typed. Have I ever told this list how hard it is for me professionally not to puke when windoze developers whimper and whine when they're asked to use a code archiving/issue management tool that isn't actually integrated into their precious IDE and they have to actually _switch windows_? I remember how one supposed professional (blessedly out of my life now) wasted 20 minutes in a tool-search meeting calculating how much "creative" time he would waste if it took him 2.5 seconds to toggle between his IDE and the Perforce GUI. I wanted to say "WHAT ABOUT MY DAMNED TIME IN THIS MEETING, BOZO?" but of course, I am far too professional for that. Yes. And mature. Far too mature. <sigh> None of this is to impugn the OP's question about Linux IDEs, of course. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
