>>"Urmil" == Urmil Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Urmil> That is what I was trying to tell. When today's Real
Urmil> Programmers were novice in the past, vi and emacs were the
Urmil> best editors. That does not qualify them to be best
Urmil> today. Zamana badal gaya hai.
That happens to be your opinion. As a practicing professional,
I beg to differ. I have yet to see an IDE that offers even a fraction
of what Emacs does, combined judicously with tools like gdb, xdg, dd,
id-utils, ctags, and gcc.
Urmil> Don't you think those colouring and syntax checking are features of
Urmil> IDEs rather than editors?
No.
Urmil> Don't you think yesterday's plain editors are drifting to
Urmil> become IDEs?
Hell no.
Urmil> Today syntax highlighting / checking is introduced, tomorrow
Urmil> you may find vi or emacs with compilation and debugging
Urmil> facility. Isn't it what we call as an IDE?
Then IDE's are merely wanna be emacsen, since I have compiled
and jumped to error locations in my files using emacs for more than a
decade (that is pre windows 3.1 days)
Why should I go to a product that is playing catchup when I
have something like emacs?
manoj
--
The Worst Prison Guards The largest number of convicts ever to escape
simultaneously from a maximum security prison is 124. This record is
held by Alcoente Prison, near Lisbon in Portugal. During the weeks
leading up to the escape in July 1978 the prison warders had noticed
that attendances had fallen at film shows which included "The Great
Escape", and also that 220 knives and a huge quantity of electric
cable had disappeared. A guard explained, "Yes, we were planning to
look for them, but never got around to it." The warders had not,
however, noticed the gaping holes in the wall because they were
"covered with posters". Nor did they detect any of the spades,
chisels, water hoses and electric drills amassed by the inmates in
large quantities. The night before the breakout one guard had noticed
that of the 36 prisoners in his block only 13 were present. He said
this was "normal" because inmates sometimes missed roll-call or hid,
but usually came back the next morning. "We only found out about the
escape at 6:30 the next morning when one of the prisoners told us," a
warder said later. [...] When they eventually checked, the prison
guards found that exactly half of the gaol's population was missing.
By way of explanation the Justice Minister, Dr. Santos Pais, claimed
that the escape was "normal" and part of the "legitimate desire of
the prisoner to regain his liberty." Stephen Pile, "The Book of
Heroic Failures"
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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