Paul G. Allen wrote: > What I laugh at is those that insist on remaining "old school" because > they think it's better than using the IDE or GUI tool, when in actuality > they are slower at many tasks than they are when they use the IDE or GUI > tool. (Example: Typing in a complicated grep command instead of using > something like Understand where the answers can be found and browsed in > a matter of seconds.) I've found many of these types will talk about all > the negative things about a given GUI tool without ever even trying it > out.
I think it depends on the developer. Some of the "old schoolers" are doing it because other "old schoolers" that they respect are doing it, and that is sad. However, if you are doing it right, you quickly find out that you can integrate new tools and capabilities in to the "old school" dev environment. More than a few times I've played around with GUI development tools, particularly when the comparable Emacs tools were inferior, but I always find myself coming back to Emacs because people find ways to integrate new capabilities in to Emacs (and occasionally I'm motivated enough to do this myself), and when that happens I get to use these new capabilities along with all the other capabilities that Emacs already has that IDE's seem to never get. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
