[thelist] real men code by hand...
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 17 01:54:01 CST 2002
real men don't need color-coding... real women don't need those men, either...
anyway, i'm one of those odd users won't take the time to configure a text
editor to not auto-indent or auto-complete or not stick tabs and buttons in my
face or not pretend it knows HTML better than i...
notepad is everywhere -- on my home machine, on the laptop i found at the
coffee shop, on my client's servers, on my parents' machine... learn to
master notepad, and every computer is a pit-stop coding workstation for those
long days in the big blue room when you just can't get that block of code out
of your head... stop for a coffee and a code dump, and move on to the next
court-mandated community service gig... that's the freedom notepad allows....
oh, and in case i haven't mentioned this enough in the past year, i hate
WYSIWYGs... won't let any of my employees use 'em, and make clients sign
off that i'm clear if they should open the work i hand over in a WYSIWYG...
and so i'll pimp that article now...
To Hell With Bad Editors
http://evolt.org/Bad_Editors
yep, that's me...
...who is currently trying to get the borrowed copy of Life of Brian out of the
DVD case, and finding it's harder to accomplish than popping a strapless bra
with sweaty hands on prom night...
More information about the thelist
mailing list