From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T03:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>
>>cake || eat
>>
> 
> 
> Uh ... cake || eat? That's an *inclusive* or, isn't it? :)

Hmm, yeah... but it short-circuits, so if the first is true you
won't do the second... hmm.

> Yeah ... having just made fun of Eclipse and admitting that I *should*
> learn Emacs to be a "real programmer" but haven't moved beyond "vim"
> because of 20 plus years of muscle memory, I wonder if I'm the pot or
> the kettle. :)
> 
> I wonder if there's anything -- an OS, a language, an editor, a
> programming philosophy -- for which we could get *everyone* on this list
> to say, "<xxx> sucks!"


MSDOS, COBOL, notepad, static typing?


Hal