On 02/03/2005 @ 22:39 GMT, David Cantrell, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:John Delacour wrote:I sense the perennial 'when I was a lad and that's all we had' hypothesisI'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone would use such tools in preference to TextWrangler, BBEdit or Affrus. I can imagine they'd make it a chore to write code in us-ascii
You imagine wrong. There's a reason that emacs and vi have been popular for so many years, and since long before OS X was even thought of.
> coming up but was this the reason for their popularity?
The reasons that they were popular and still are have already been listed. All to do with utility and nothing to do with the fact that I used to have to work 25 hours a day down pit for nowt but a bag of gravel AND I WAS GRATEFUL FOR WHAT I GOT.
If so it's kind of lame seeing as we know have alternatives that work
> very well and more intuitively on their given platform (i.e. OS X)
OS X is only one of many platforms I use. This is the case for most programmers whose opinions I respect. I want my most important tool, the one in which I write the code that earns me the money I need for buying whisky, to work consistently everywhere that I work (OS X, Linux/x86, Linux/Sparc, Solaris, Unicos, Irix, OpenBSD). Until TextWrangler, BBEdit, and Affrus work consistently in all those places - and yes, that includes over slow network connections - they are unworthy of consideration.
But if you want to limit yourself to just one platform, you go right ahead.
-- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because
I know my system could smash theirs flat if it fell over on it.
-- (with apologies to Brian Chase)
