[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sun Sep 15 18:50:04 PDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:56:50PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 15.09.2013 16:24, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> >On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:04:25AM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
> >>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
> >
> >
> >T
> >
> 
> I can imagine, I remember the stack of books O'Reilley used to sell.
> 
> The department guys were very happy with you I guess. :)
[...]

Hehe... fortunately, the printer service was managed by a dedicated
team, and I'm guessing they're pretty used to big jobs every now and
then. I did get strange looks from them, though. :-)


T

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