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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:04:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pdbtsgm.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (signups's message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:04:46 -0800 (PST)")

() signups17@gmail.com
() Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:04:46 -0800 (PST)

   As I get more and more into programming, I get the sense that "real"
   programmers use emacs or vi, or some other editor that from my
   perspective, seems arcane and impenetrable compared to something
   simple like IDLE that comes with Python, or Scite, for example.

   Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for why I should take the time
   to climb that learning curve? What are the benefits, as you see them?

real programmers use their brain.
real programmers program their brain.
often, real programmers' brain-programming program is emacs.

thi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 22:04 Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question signups17
2008-01-17 22:47 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-01-18  0:26 ` reader
2008-01-18  1:44 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18  9:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-18  9:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2008-01-18 10:05 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2008-01-18 11:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-18 23:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-19  0:19 ` Mike Treseler
2008-01-21 16:33   ` rustom
2008-01-22 17:24 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-22 18:10   ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-23  6:02 ` Bob McCormick

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