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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."

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  1. N/A by Oligonicella · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't use one language, I don't use one machine, I don't use one operating system, I don't use one editor and I don't program into any language with just one of those editors. So, to me, the entire topic reduces to "That doesn't even make sense."

  2. Emacs and whatever language suits the job. by BitterOak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Emacs is my editor of choice. As for language, I use whatever best suits the task at hand, most frequently: Perl, Ruby, Java, C, and JavaScript. And if I'm customizing emacs, I use lisp.

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  3. If the editor really matters by msobkow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the editor really matters, you're not much of a programmer. Text is text -- any editor should do.

    Don't confuse relying on IDE crutches with being an editor.

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