On 26 Jul 2001 17:54:08 -0400, Ross Fogleman wrote:
>
>
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > I agree, but you can absolutely count on truckloads of brain-dead luser
> > applications from this. If I were hiring programmers, I'd sit 'em down
> > in front of vi/jed/emacs and make them prove to me they could really
> > program, not drag/drop.
> >
> <snip>
>
> I think this whole view of having people prove that they can "program" by learning obscure and user-hostile applications (*ahem* vi) is BS.
> Calling it masochism would be putting it in its best light. When I write my PHP scripts, I use a program called "PHP Coder Pro!" for
> Windows, written in Delphi, and does that mean I write braindead code? No, it means that I actually value the time spent programming as
> opposed to learning some braindead commandline interface. Seriously, what's so wrong with making things easier for programmers (not hackers
> and hobbyists, I mean people who want to write code without having to worry about how they're supposed to cut'n'paste text)?
>
I used to think vi was a hostile user unfriendly program until I took
the time to learn it :-D
> --
> Kevin Fogleman
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