* On Fri, Dec 11 2009, Rene Schickbauer wrote: > Hi! > >> I think a discussion about the why's could be interesting and >> insightful - unfortunately I have to agree that the posts above are >> mostly about influencing and not much about truth seeking. Is that >> ever possible? > > I don't think so. Everyone thinks and works a little different. So, a > feature in a software could be THE feature for one but the killer bug > for someone else. > > This is similar to "Whats the best editor?" or "Whats the best > operating system?"... Countless flamewars have been fought (and lost) > over questions like that.
In my experience, ask anyone why they use their favorite editor, and the answer is usually "because I learned this one first" or "because I wrote this one". Nobody has ever answered "because I made a chart of editors versus features I desired, tested each one, and the one I chose had the most checkboxes". Just sayin'; like favorite colors, favorite editors and favorite pieces of Perl code are mostly irrational emotional "decisions". (My answer, FWIW, is "because I learned this one first", but I steal features from the other editors whenever possible. The ease of which this is possible leads me to believe that I made the right choice, but I am just as irrational as anyone else.) Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
