[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 15.09.2013 16:24, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:04:25AM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 15.09.2013 01:35, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:38:52 +0200
>>> "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 06:57:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>> Windows and most of the other distros at the time offered: the
>>>>> ability to install a bare minimum system that could still
>>>>> function without *requiring* X11
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> oh god X11 was too brutally slow to use on an older computer
>>>> anyway. Windows 95 was actually fast.
>>
>>
>> An interesting anecdote.
>>
>> At the begining of my UNIX days, it was a pleasure to use the usual set
>> of APIs, which tend to be less convoluted than on Windows.
>>
>> Then I started looking into X11 programming with Xlib and Motif, and
>> could not believe that they managed to make it even more complex
>> than any other desktop graphics programming API!
> [...]
>
> Once, in college, I had the totally hare-brained idea of *printing* out
> the Xlib documentation. Through the department's printer service. It
> came out as a stack of paper 6 *inches* thick (you do the math as to how
> many pages that is), which I still have today for posterity. :-P
>
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> T
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I can imagine, I remember the stack of books O'Reilley used to sell.

The department guys were very happy with you I guess. :)

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Paulo