On Jul 18, 7:30 pm, Joe Croft <[email protected]> wrote: > Are all of the young bucks mystified by the use of the command line? Granted, > I have learned to debug code w/o a debugger, but that is about all an IDE buys > you, the debugger. > > I'm stuck using Visual Studio at work and it's a royal pain! Slow to load, > slow to build, slow to shutdown.The editor sucks too!!! Not that Vim is > something I use for regular programming. Give me my Graphical editor with it's > "Brief " like emulation! Of course, only a fool tries to work on a unix system > without knowing the basics of vi, just because!
Get over it. VS is not bad. I've spent many many (far too many) years designing & working on Unix drivers, OpenVMS internals, custom bit- slice processor design, Windows, *humungous* systems (70,000 simultaneous users), tiny embedded systems, microwave landing systems for jet fighters,you mention it. All systems have their pluses and minuses - they are not religious icons - they are tools - a means to an end, no more than that. I've used VS extensively since its first release, I've hacked vim, vi, sed, TPU, EDT, brief, teco, emacs and probably a 100 other editors & environments since the mid-70s. Horses for courses - on Windows, VS is not bad at all, on Unix, I find vi usable and fine, no more than that. Trying to compare VS (which is a framework) with vi (which is a completely different beast) is pointless. You don't like the editor for a particular file type in VS, then change it (do it from the File- >Open->File menu). Unix systems, when not properly set up, can be a piece of excrement, as can Windows systems. Try to remember that Unix is nothing new - the core has been around in pretty much its current form since the mid 70's - vi was written about then. Oddly, the rest of the world has moved on, maybe not in a way to everyone's tastes, but its most certainly moved on. You want to stick in the dark ages. Do so. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
