Random Perl ... rant
Ash Berlin
ash_cpan at firemirror.com
Thu Apr 3 19:08:59 BST 2008
On 3 Apr 2008, at 18:23, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> * On Thu, Apr 03 2008, Dean Wilson wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:14:57AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>>> I'll add to this that I don't think it's a coincidence that most
>>> of the
>>> best programmers choose tools other than Windows and Visual Studio.
>>
>> I've heard that before (from DDH about macs) and it's always irked
>> me - so prove your statement.
>
> This isn't a proof so much as an interesting exercise. Go find your
> favorite CPAN modules, then ask the author what editor they use. I
> doubt anything other than vi(m), emacs, and textmate will come up. If
> you ask in the Ruby, C, haskell, or lisp communities you will probably
> get similar results. (Java people tend to use NetBeans or Eclipse for
> the same reason that Lisp people use emacs. They can extend it in
> their
> native language.)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
>
> --
> print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
And you can write plugins for visual studio in C++ or any .net laguage.
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