On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:43:00PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > ang labo mo daming gusto. first, you speak of learning curve. then you speak > of not being endeared to graphicals IDEs. what next? M$ makes good > non-graphical IDEs. hay.
Hey, you're the one who doesn't like graphical IDEs. I like graphical IDEs like I like XWindows - it's a good thing, if only to organize my rxvts. ;) Emacs is sorta like a GUI IDE already, if you think about it. <impish grin> With JDE, it even has that funky autocomplete/intellisense/whatever. I don't mind learning curve. I'm nuts, remember? I just hate IDEs that visibly slow down when I'm trying to do something; the cause of my ire with Emacs from time to time, actually, since sometimes fontlock and JDE reaallly slow down my comp. (And I happen to like fontlock max at that...) Microsoft actually makes pretty decent IDEs, although their documentation could be a bit more useful than it currently is.. <grumble> Whatever happened to nice, easy to understand code snippets? Anyway, that's one of my pet peeves. Then there's the fact that most things cost lots of money in the Microsoft culture, like those DLLs you need for web development... .. and the hardware and disk space you need to start developing - don't even get me started on that. <laugh> Then again the Linux toolchains take up a fair bit of space as well, but I feel like I'm getting more bang for the buck. Windows didn't do too well on half of my 4GB hard disk, so between Windows and Linux I decided to go Linux all the way. You know that story already, William! <grin> So in summary, I've nothing against Microsoft except that their tools tend to lead to lockin and their documentation often sucks... Linux docs suck from time to time, but at least I can go bug a lot of people about it, or spend a few hours/weeks/months staring at the source. ;) Oops, I'm ranting again, aren't I? Well, to be fair, I haven't really invested a lot of time in developing on the Windows platform. I'm pretty certain that if I immersed myself in MS stuff, I'd get the hang of VC++ and friends. I'd discover and use most of the shortcuts (did you know that VC++ recognizes Emacs bindings? I think that's pretty cool =) ), and maybe I'd actually program much faster on Windows, especially with its focus on drag-and-drop programming. Maybe I'd even be convinced that Windows isn't as developer-unfriendly as I thought. Who knows? We'll see. But I want to get used to development on Linux - there's just so much more incentive to do so, and it's admittedly much more convenient... There's still so much I have to learn - I'm no GNU tools guru, and I don't write complex makefiles in my sleep - so you'll probably see me trying to play around with all of those weird, steep-learning-curve thingamajigs I can apt^H^H^H rpm -Uvh in... <g> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3 BS CS Ateneo geek =) Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) tel: 63(2) 426-6001 loc 5925 BOFH excuse #210: We didn't pay the Internet bill and it's been cut off. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
