[Boulder.pm] text editor wars

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Fri Jan 17 12:08:44 CST 2003


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jay F Kominek wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Walter Pienciak wrote:
> > It was bound to happen.
> >
> > My daughter wants emacs.  Her CU professor wants the class
> > to use emacs.
>
> CSCI1300? Thats pretty standard. As I understand it, the profs
> for that course have enough trouble helping people figure out
> how to use UNIX/C/etc that they don't want to have to deal with
> a variety of editors, as well.

Could be.  It's an intro programming course in C++, and what you
say is as I suspected.  It's a reasonable position that the
prof has too, my own lack of enthusiasm for Bach organ fugues
and the grand chords of Stallman's beast notwithstanding.

The consensus is overwhelmingly for GNU (as opposed to X/Lucid),
with one vote for armadillo.  Rob is coming over for lunch, and
if he's still being silly I may have to force some bourbon
down his throat to settle him down.

Walter



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