A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for cosmic
radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing
and functional sequence of bits.

--Sebastian

Ross Singer wrote:
> All I use is a pen and legal size paper.  Longhand is the real hacker's IDE.
>
> Then I feed my code in via a scanner and OCR.
>
> Python's a little tricker:  needs a ruler or graph paper at the very least.
>
> All my work is open source, give me a call and I'll read it to you.
> Sorry, the fax machine isn't working right.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Ryan Ordway <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I prefer to edit the filesystem directly with a hex editor. No
>>  mounting required! I've given up on using magents directly on the hard
>>  drive, I tend to do more damage that way...
>>
>>  On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:54 AM, David Fiander wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Vi is just as programmable as emacs. It's possible to write a vi macro
>>> that runs a turing machine.
>>>
>>> - David
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Cloutman, David
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I use nano, which is the same thing as pico, more or less. I wrote my
>>>> first web pages using pico in a unix shell. I always thought it was a
>>>> great editor. I use nano almost daily, even on my Windows machines.
>>>>
>>>> I just don't see the attaction to vi. I understand the need to know
>>>> it,
>>>> but the fundamentalist furvor that some people have for the program
>>>> baffles me.
>>>>
>>>> - David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Electronic Services Librarian
>>>> Marin County Free Library
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of
>>>> K.G. Schneider
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:09 AM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] K&R (was: Gartner on OSS)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
>>>>>
>>>>>       http://xkcd.com/378/
>>>>>
>>>>> (personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ...
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> ex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> for those rare times when you have to tip into a Solaris box to fix
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> vfstab and your TERM is completely hosed)
>>>>>
>>>>> -Joe
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Back when that was my choice, I used emacs exactly once, during
>>>> which I
>>>> removed every instance of the letter "m" from a lengthy document.
>>>> (When
>>>> I have to edit a file in my shell account, which is rare, I use
>>>> pico...
>>>> yes, I know that makes me a sissy *and I don't care.*)
>>>>
>>>> K.G. Schneider
>>>>
>>>> Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>  --
>>  Ryan Ordway                           E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>  Unix Systems Administrator               [log in to unmask]
>>  OSU Libraries, Corvallis, OR 97331    Office: Valley Library #4657
>>
>>
>
>

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