From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:08 +0900 Message-ID: References: <4C3B6A8A.80105@gmx.de> <87wrt0e81n.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279014667 32518 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 09:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 11:51:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYc8h-0004gE-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYc7C-0002rE-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60996 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYc71-0002qd-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYc70-0005kr-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:61651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYc6y-0005kJ-E6; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.184]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o6D9nA1a001831; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:10 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id o6D9nAF04520; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:10 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.64]) by vgate01.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id o6D9n9405868; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.117] [10.29.19.117]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:09 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.140] [10.114.113.140]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:09 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E171652E222; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:49:08 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87wrt0e81n.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:53:24 +0200") Original-Lines: 22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127163 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes writes: > A few weeks ago I was required to translate an old, small Visual Basic > application to C#. I was less than thrilled with the job, but anyways > the first thing was to configure Emacs as a C# editor.=20 ... > I gave up > and tried certain popular IDE, out of despair. 15 minutes later my > client's application, on its basic inception, was running on the screen, > mostly thanks to an accurate and fast code completion system that not MS has spent vast amounts of resources pushing C# and .net as hard as they can. It's not surprising that VS has very good C# support. But C# is a minor niche language in the sort of environments where Emacs is most popular. Given relatively limited resources for Emacs development, and the unpopularity of C#, it's hardly surprising that Emacs C# support is less good.... -Miles --=20 Quack, n. A murderer without a license.