From: Stephen Kellett Date: 2005-02-20T07:24:44+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] FXIrb 0.14 - a Win32 GUI wrapper around IRB In message <42169773.60505@neurogami.com>, James Britt writes >I really liked Visual Studio back in my VB days, and like (to the small >extent I've used it) the current .net visual studio. (SharpDevelop is >quite slick, too). Blimey, I just don't understand that. Visual Studio 6.0 == very good. Visual Studio.net == awful, just about everything that was good in 6 was broken beyond repair and some of it is still not fixed in Visual Studio.net 2005 beta. I bet after VB, Ruby is quite a revelation. >And Gvim is my editor of choice. Thats a vi variant? Ouch. >By coincidence this has largely happened since I came across Ruby. >But I've also met a fair number of Windows hackers who also live in cmd >world. I think a certain mindset encourages the migration. I'm the opposite way around. I was a die hard Unix guy until I saw Excel running inside of Word in 1993. Nothing like that could be done in the Unix world at that time. I didn't move to start using Microsoft stuff till '96. I still use Linux, but not much, although that will soon change. I have no time for Linux vs Microsoft OS wars or languages wars. As time has gone on I'm further away from cmd all the time, but there are some things I will only do from cmd - I think some things are just better there and what those things are, they are probably person-specific. Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk RSI Information: http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/rsi.html