Years ago I was in a discussion with a physics professor about aspects
of some new programming language, he then said to me,  "I use a  high
level  language",  naturally I tried to guess what it was, I went
through a pretty extensive list, increasingly esoteric.  "No, no," he
said at last, "it's none of those,  it's called 'graduate student'".  I
imagine he used a text editor called 'secretary'.
-chick
> 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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