>>"Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sandip> But I strongly disagree to the notion that "real" programming
Sandip> is only when you use non-IDE interfaces.
I tend not to disagree.
Sandip> It is like people about two decades ago saying punch-cards
Sandip> programming or op-code programming is better than keyboard or
Sandip> C programming respectively. I even know some people in those
Sandip> ages sneering at C, and calling it a tool for
Sandip> non-programmers(compared to their assembly language!). Change
Actually, any contempt I feel is not for the tool, but for
people who use it as a crutch, and to defend their not learning their
craft.
Frankly, I have yet to see an IDE that provides even half the
power of a well tuned emacs implementation.
Sandip> Non-IDE development environments has got many passionate
Sandip> followers. But even more than them are people who felt such
Sandip> environments daunting. Who knows how many potential "Bill
Sandip> Joys" we have lost that way!
None. For if they are defeated by mere syntax, they do not
have what it takes to be a Bill Joy. Or even a halfway decent
programmer.
Sandip> The typical reaction of these followers has been to keep
Sandip> things that way(knowledge is power).
Knowledge is indeed power. But No one is hoarding that
knowledge -- and all my
Sandip> I rather feel that if the objective is to bring people and
Sandip> computers(in general, not just Linux) together, these
Sandip> environments(IDE et al) should get as much support from the
Sandip> non-IDE types.
Why do you think that is an objective of the people who are
actually doing the work in the free software arena?
Folks, I suggest you seriously examine the motivation of the
people behind free software, espescially if you are committing
yourself, your carreer, or your company to it. (The BSD folk I have
talked to would seriously balk at that implied motive ;-)
manoj
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