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Posted by Soulskill on from the fortran-and-a-stack-of-recycled-construction-paper dept.

tyggna writes: "The flame wars of different shells and text editors have long been established, but my question is this: are text editors and various languages linked? Do the majority of Ruby programmers use Emacs? Are most Perl programmers using vim?

Please post your editor and language of choice in the comments."

8 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Oldster, not hipster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    C, vi. My IDE is make. Now get off my lawn!

  2. OK by slapout · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Please post your editor and language of choice in the comments."

    O'Reilly and English

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  3. C/C++/Java/Ruby/Python and I use.... by RedHackTea · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quill pen on papyrus. I have a dedicated typist to re-type all of it when I'm done into whatever editor it chooses. I also have a stenographer for when my hand gets tired. I never get compilation errors.

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  4. Re: vi, Emacs or IDE by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux "experts" love to hate on nano because you don't need a cheat sheet to just start using it

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  5. Re:Uh, sure.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And there's even a vi plugin for it that turns it into a text editor!

  6. Re:No love for nano? by bazmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    No love for nano?

    No.

  7. Re:Uh, sure.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Emacs *does* come with a built in psychoanalyst. Press ESC x doctor ENTER. Please do it now; you need it.

  8. Copy Con by RatBastard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Copy Con > myjob.bat. Editing is for wimps.

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