[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Sep 23 17:31:57 PDT 2013


On 9/23/13 5:30 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 21:21:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
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>> Yea, I find installing software is often (not always, but often)
>> *easier* on Linux these days, thanks to apt and such. It used to be a
>> nightmare of dependency issues in the days of dpkg/rpm[1]. But now,
>> most of the time it's just one trivial command. Done. Or if you prefer
>> GUIs, the...uhh...what's it called, Synaptec?, is just as easy, *and*
>> good for discoverability: It's basically a freeware app store, but
>> Linux had it even *before* iOS.
>>
>
> Just a short story to reinforce the above point.  In our Grad Lab
> at school the girl I sat beside was also the system admin.  One
> day I was working and I needed a piece of software that wasn't
> installed on my computer. So I asked her if she could install it
> when she had the chance.
>
> She said "sure" and asked me for the PC name I was working on so
> I to told her, and then I said, "No great rush, but can you let
> me know when you have it installed". Without a pause she just
> said, "It's already installed".  I typed the command and the
> program started.  Total time 6 or 7 seconds.
>
> I was very impressed (the lab computers ran Ubuntu).

Marriage material! :o)

Andrei



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