Re: [SLUG] GPL version of Kylix

From: billt@ifelse.org
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 19:59:33 EDT


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:43:42PM -0500, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> 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

pffft. even after you learn it, vi finds new ways to be hostile.



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