Re: [GD-General] Eiffel

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J C Lawrence <cl...@ka...>:
> Yup.  I know most of it is close to 15 years old -- going back
> almost to the old TECO days.  I thought some of the code
> highlighting and syntax detection and such was a bit younger tho.

Possibly, I was using a dumb terminal at the time. The only colour being
green.


> I'm pretty sure much of the more interesting ispell/aspell
> integration was only done around 5 or 6 years ago.

I remember playing with ispell, but IIRC it was fairly flakey at the time.

...
> Then again, why would you ever have to work on someone else's machine?

Debugging code they haven't checked in yet. Tracking bugs that only
manifest reliably on their system. Sporadic occurences of pair programming.
It happens.

> You've got the network.  Use it.

We have a windows network. Nuff said.

Cheers,
Phil