D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the > article, for me, is this paragraph : > > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio. > Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop for Linux. > """ > > Right. Did M$ forget that C and C++ originated on Unix systems? (For > those who don't know, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan > were three of the guys who created the first Unix system and are also > the guys to created C) > > I have to use Windo~1 as my development workstation at my co-op job. > My primary tools are (g)vim, bash, grep, etc ... they are *nix tools! > Without cygwin, windows would be virtually unusable. Fortunately my > system behaves as much like unix as possible for me :-). > > -D > > PS. This company is a Java shop and doesn't use Visual Studio at > all, except for Visual Source Safe. It is similar to rcs, but > with a gui frontend. I don't have much experience with cvs, > but I know it is far superior! (The gui of VSS is nice, > sometimes, though) > > PPS. Most of the people here use JBuilder, but one guy uses emacs. > A contractor whose contract recently expired also used emacs.
emacs with jde works great for Java. Eric
