Years ago I was in a discussion with a physics professor about aspects
of some new programming language, he then said to me, "I use a high
level language", naturally I tried to guess what it was, I went
through a pretty extensive list, increasingly esoteric. "No, no," he
said at last, "it's none of those, it's called 'graduate student'". I
imagine he used a text editor called 'secretary'.
-chick
A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for cosmic
radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing
and functional sequence of bits.
--Sebastian
Ross Singer wrote:
All I use is a pen and legal size paper. Longhand is the real
hacker's IDE.
Then I feed my code in via a scanner and OCR.
Python's a little tricker: needs a ruler or graph paper at the very
least.
All my work is open source, give me a call and I'll read it to you.
Sorry, the fax machine isn't working right.
-Ross.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Ryan Ordway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I prefer to edit the filesystem directly with a hex editor. No
mounting required! I've given up on using magents directly on the hard
drive, I tend to do more damage that way...
On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:54 AM, David Fiander wrote:
Vi is just as programmable as emacs. It's possible to write a vi macro
that runs a turing machine.
- David
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Cloutman, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use nano, which is the same thing as pico, more or less. I wrote my
first web pages using pico in a unix shell. I always thought it was a
great editor. I use nano almost daily, even on my Windows machines.
I just don't see the attaction to vi. I understand the need to know
it,
but the fundamentalist furvor that some people have for the program
baffles me.
- David
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K.G. Schneider
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I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ...
and
ex
for those rare times when you have to tip into a Solaris box to fix
the
vfstab and your TERM is completely hosed)
-Joe
Back when that was my choice, I used emacs exactly once, during
which I
removed every instance of the letter "m" from a lengthy document.
(When
I have to edit a file in my shell account, which is rare, I use
pico...
yes, I know that makes me a sissy *and I don't care.*)
K.G. Schneider
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