Sure, let?s all just forget about cheese-burgers fries and start eating
vegetables because they are really healthy food and sustain as any other
one (:-P). You could still use vi (i some times do), as you can still
program asc under 8086, but if you really want to increase your
productivity start using a UI. There are a lot of tools to write C/C++
code, i basically use LCC to develop C plain code, but Eclipse CDT is a
very good UI, you will only have to download a C/C++ compiler (CDT dosen?t
come with a compiler) like gcc, or even MVC++ running under wine (or
something like that, i don?t know any one who actually used MVC under
wine).
Andy, dont get mad at me, this is just my point of view, and i tend to
admire oldies (:-)) who are still running things under vi.
Humm...you work at IBMinsert appropriate comment about OS/390, AIX,
and JCL here
I use vi because one of my first professional jobs was working in
Alabama at a state government place. I'd been working on OS/2 and had
little exposure to UNIX. When I sat down and had to change a few config
files I looked up at this crusty ol' programmer and said what's the
editor called on this thing... he got visibly annoyed with me and said
Son, I don know how they do things up* there in Florida, but you in the
Bible belt now. There are two things you need to know: God created the
world in 6 days, and he did it with VE, EYYEEE.
Since I couldn't argue with that impeccable logic my love affair with
things that did not make me wait began. I'm only now beginning to use
IDEs with Java due to annotations and things, but you have to admit...it
is sloww. and gets in your way.
-Andy
* Florida is one of those states that every true southerner knows is in
a time-space warp. While it is actually up there in the North with
all those yankees, one must drive below the south to get there. Thus
although I grew up in a state that most folks would locate on the globe
south, I will never have the honor of being a true southerner because
I grew up north in Florida. There are alternative theories of how
Florida got down there (which is really up there) many of which
theorize that it had premonition of Castro and broke off of Cuba and ran
smack into the southern border of the US a few millenia before Castro
was born (just for safe measure). What is important is that proper
'merican is spoken in Florida and the English language is properly
normalized to have a plural form of you best known as Y'all and that
it can be properly typed on a US keyboard without straining your
fingersr too far off the home row.
[]s
Jo?o
There is a certain bias I have that tends to think that visual
programmers do not tend to be able to write compilers and the such. If
command lines are a barrier to entry, wait till you meet hexcodes and
relocatable memory addressing. However that may just be that I'm a
command line junkie and a bit of a techno-bigot.
-Andy
