[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 19 September 2013 00:03, growler <growlercab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 20:46:00 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Am 18.09.2013 22:31, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:01:26AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 17:01:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, that gives me an idea. What if, instead of defaulting to
>>>>> character data, the terminal input stream defaults to control
>>>>> structures?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hehe those who don't understand Windows are doomed to reinvent it :)
>>>> :) :)
>>>
>>>
>>> lol... though it makes me think of the latest C++ proposals as "those
>>> who don't understand D are doomed to reinvent it, poorly". :-P
>>
>>
>> Even though I bought the updated version of "The C++ Programming
>> Language", I've started to get the feeling that the C++ standard might get
>> into the same direction as ANSI Extended Pascal.
>>
>> It gets updated, but besides a few places in the world, developers will
>> eventually stop caring.
>>
>> I agree with Andrei's statement at Going Native. Even if C++14 and
>> eventually C++17 make developer's life easier, you still need to know
>> all archaic issues all the way back to C, to be able to tackle any issues
>> that come up.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I remember in the old DOS days, some games would load up custom graphics
>>> into the video card's text font buffer, so that they can draw sprites
>>> just by writing the corresponding characters into the video card's text
>>> buffer.  You can get very fast drawing rates since the video card does
>>> most of the work for you (and you only need to transfer 1 byte per 8x8
>>> block of pixels instead of 8 bytes or more).
>>>
>>
>> In the Amiga was even better, thanks to the custom blitter chips. Just set
>> up the required information and start a few DMA operations.
>>
>> Nowadays, you can get a similar effect with a few shaders.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
>
> Did someone say Amiga? :D
>
> The first consumer PC that had a programmable GPU...with only 3
> instructions.
>
> WAIT, MOVE, SKIP.
>
> WAIT (for the raster to reach a line)
> MOVE (some data, 16-bits from memory)
> SKIP (...can't remember exactly what this did, rarely used it. I think was
> to skip instructions in the copper list.)
>
>

Perhaps SKIP was used as a hack to add comments. ;-)

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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