RE: [GD-General] Eiffel

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

> Obviously your approach works very well for you. Do you know 
> of other people who work the same way?

Tons.  TONS.

Back when I was in college, I religiously used Unix and tvtwm.  The idea
of using anything other than Emacs, focus-follows-mouse, tcsh and a
virtual desktop manager was mind bogglingly hideous to me.  I couldn't
imagine how others that needed to get work done could possibly survive
in a Windows environment.

Of course, I got over that =)

Now I realize that when doing what is fundamentally text editing that I
can survive in just about any environment because the real work is
between my ears, not at my fingertips.  My earlier argument for better
environments isn't so much about getting better, monolithic text editing
environments, but eschewing text editing as the fundamental interface we
do things.  If programming ends up being nothing but generating syntax
for a set of external tools, then using Emacs or MSDEV shouldn't matter,
it's just a personal choice.  I just think that the next logical step is
to have tools that are fully integrated and look at things as classes,
hierarchies, interfaces, etc. instead of whitespace and keywords and
identifiers and files.

The one user-interface concession I still won't make is the placement of
control key.  I just purchased a nextstep ADB keyboard for my PowerMac
simply because I get CTS if the control key is located in the standard
position.

Brian