Hello friends,
In case you are all wondering where I have been, its been finals and work, and life that has kept me away. If I should miss you guys for todays reunion, I'll bemthere next meeting, but I will be there next meeting. ralph ----- Original message ----- > > If someone said they were using VI for development there are a couple > > > of assumptions I can make. > > > > Shame on you, you should know better about assumptions :) > > > > Sorry but it's experience from working with literally 100's of > development shops all over the world and everything from financial to > media. I can tell from reading a statement of work most of the time how > much experience development shops have. > > > > > 1 is that they don't have any defined standards or standards are not > > > being enforced. 2 they probably don't have many defined processes for > > > development in general. This is bad all the way around. > > > > Why can't a company have standards based around VI/VIM or Emacs? What > > if the company had a process but it just included VI? > > > > They just don't. They could try I suppose, but the amount of work > involved in getting configurations together for these tools is > prohibitive for them. Not to mention it's more work that developers have > to do. Most shops nowadays are pretty diverse and mostly overworked. So > you may have developers in India that you also need to deal with as well > as more developers dealing with more than one language. By using a > flexible IDE you can give them one tool for the job. Many developers you > don't want them messing with their systems. Trust me on this ;) It's not > that it's hard or even difficult, it just is something else. You'd be > surprised. > > > > Don't get me wrong I use an IDE. But I am not surprised when working in > > the FOSS world when I come across programmers that use, or code that > > was written with VI/VIM or Emacs. I see it to often for it to be any > > sort of shock or surprise. Sometimes I feel like my skills are below > > par, because I am not coding in them or doing things as rapid as > > others. Much less with the quality that others produce with the crappy > > tools ;) > > > You have to start thinking globally outside just the FOSS world. That's > not how a majority of organizations out there operate. For better or > worse right? ;) > > -- > *Nathan Hamiel* > http://hexsec.com > <http://hexsec.com>http://twitter.com/nathanhamiel > blog: www.neohaxor.org
