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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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 13:45:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9flodm$6jb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1E7320.5E21BB4F@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1EAAB4.5C86F53D@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1FA9B2.F5D98BD0@lmtas.lmco.com> Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:44:28 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:44:28 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8353 Date: 2001-06-07T20:44:28+00:00 List-Id: 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!" :-) >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