From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-12-04T20:41:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27439] Re: Killer app for Ruby developers?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Sean Russell wrote:

> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>
> > Net-enable it for the purpose of... <drum
> > roll please> remote pair programming!
> ....
> > Should have at least a chat box, maybe even
> > voice, maybe even webcam.
>
> Yeah, this would be a requirement... otherwise, you aren't really pair
> programming.  Chat box might be distracting, but voice may be restrictive
> for people still on <100k bandwidth.

And besides, not everybody uses speech as a preferred language.
There is {ASL, BSL, ISL, LSQ,...}, i.e. the set of sign languages.
Concluson: provide hooks for some interaction protocol(s) and provide
a text default.
>
> > One problem: Do we settle on a fixed editor?
> > Make it configurable? Give it "faces" that look
> > like emacs or whatever? Not everyone agrees
	[...]
> adopt a programming style, but editor choice is pretty personal.  I started
> with Emacs, then vi, then Visual Age, Slick Edit, jEdit, ad nauseum...
> they're all useable, but in the end, I went back to vi.  Even with all of

Caveat: "Anything is possible for the [person] who doesn't have to do it
[themselves]":
Would it be possible to have some underlying abstraction, so that if I
shared it with, say, Dave or Andy, they could use emacs commands while
I use vim commands, while passing the same edit window between us?
Maybe it would be too slow.  In the end these would probably be subsets
of the commands, but useful subsets, nonetheless.
>
> --
> --- SER

	Hugh
>