On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:16 AM, David Krings<[email protected]> wrote: > I learned assembler on the Z80 and the editor that we had was really not > much more than a somewhat better text editor. It may depend on the > development kit that is available for the platform.
Which brings up an interesting point. I was recently in a shop where all of the senior developers were MIT alumni. They all had these crazy whack-daddy split rounded ergonomic keyboards, and they all worked almost exclusively in emacs. This didn't indicate to me that this was the best environment, but one that required enough effort to get comfortable in to be restricting. Take the jimi hendrix keyboards away, or take emacs away, and these dudes were in a heap o' hurt 'n' pain! I wonder if our strong opinions on environments are more driven by comfort than actual features and whatnot? I got so used to kate and quanta - I lived in KDE for 6 years and never really got over it - and still miss them although I have plenty of really incredible tools in OSX as well... -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
