From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 15:02:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!pulsar.dimensional.com!dimensional.com!coop.net!newsfeed1.global.lmco.com!svlnews.lmms.lmco.com!news1.lmtas.lmco.com!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:36:51 -0500 Organization: LM Aeronautics Message-ID: <3B1FF3F3.665EB1F7@lmtas.lmco.com> References: <9flodm$6jb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1E7320.5E21BB4F@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1EAAB4.5C86F53D@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1FA9B2.F5D98BD0@lmtas.lmco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CAA261517.lmtas.lmco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; LMTAS} (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8359 Date: 2001-06-07T16:36:51-05:00 List-Id: Hi, Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3B1FA9B2.F5D98BD0@lmtas.lmco.com>, Gary Scott says... > >Ted Dennison wrote: > >> I find it amusing that you seem to be using "geeks" above as a synonym for > >> "people who really know what they are doing". That's fine, as it goes > >Well, I guess that was my intended meaning of "geek", of which I > >consider myself one (even if no one else does). It certainly wasn't an > >insult. ... > > I didn't take it as one. As I said, I just found it amusing. I have been married > for over 13 years. You'll have to do a lot better than that to hurt my feelings. > :-) > > >I use Kedit myself. There are several Emacs users in my group. I like > >to have fun with them by writing Kedit macros that outperform their > >beloved Emacs macros. At one point there was a team of 5 tweaking a > > To me the speed issue with macros is that they are signficantly faster (and less > erorr-prone) than doing it by hand. If I have to wait a couple of seconds, > that's just more time for me to kick back and think, "damn I'm glad I'm not > doing this by hand!" :-) I failed to mention also, that it took fewer instructions in Kedit, so I spent less time creating the macro in the first place. It just so happened in this case, that Kedit was uniquely well-suited for the particular task. > > >Nope, not free, not even close, but extremely popular by comparison to > >virtually anything in competition. > Well, my point is that you have to be fair in your comparison. There are > compilers (Aonix) with a similar environment for a similar price. There are > compilers with what some consider a far superior environment for a far superior > price (Rational). Considering that its Free Software, what you get with the > "student version" of Gnat is quite good. > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com