Re: "vim" is for nerds who can get a date.

Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote at 21:06 this Monday (GMT):

On 4/15/24 06:37, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Relf wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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Ahlstrom:

If DFS wants to see a bloated hobbyware fiasco,
he should install Visual Studio.

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"vim" is for nerds who can get a date.
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Again:
      I use a _normal_ text editor, like Borland's "Turbo Pascal" & "Turbo C".
      35 years ago, in 1989, Seattle, "Microsoft C" ( on Win2 ) was my editor/IDE;
      later, it was called "DevStudio", now "Visual Studio".

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Some people live and die by Visual Studio.  I found it bloated, intrusive,
and annoying. To hell with Intellisense!
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Using vim, GNU autools/libtool, qmake, or meson from a terminal window is much
more pleasant to me.
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YMMV
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I read somewhere one of the C teachers and author said using IDE to
learn C is wasteful because they usually have learning curves. Even the
choice of an editor alone should be one of simplest ones, to avoid yet
another learning curve.
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It said, learn C and only then use an editor like Emacs or an IDE.

  The real horror of learning C is the make system.