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Don't Use Emacs, Says Java's Father
Mar 4, 2008, 13 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (9646 reads)

(Other stories by Rodney Gedda)

[ Thanks to Ward D for this link. ]

"Known in the development world as the father of Java, Sun Microsystems' vice president and fellow James Gosling has urged coders to stop using the antiquated Emacs text editor and move to a more modern IDE like Sun's own open source NetBeans.

"During his keynote address at the Sydney leg of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference, Gosling quizzed the audience by asking how many people 'still use Emacs...?'"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
This article is an utter waste of electr ...   Nonesense...   
Lou
Mar 4, 2008, 14:03:32
 
NetBeans is probably a good environment  ...   Missing the point.   
gmo
Mar 4, 2008, 14:18:04
 
Stop using antiquated Emacs and use a mo ...   I agree   
Don Brock
Mar 4, 2008, 15:10:26
 
... the NetBeans feature list for C/C++- ...   Hm ...   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 4, 2008, 15:50:20
 
Gosling takes himself a lot more serious ...   Pompous ass   
Craig
Mar 4, 2008, 16:40:56
 
Use what you like and use what works for ...   Whatever happened to   
Kavey
Mar 4, 2008, 17:34:08
 
> Stop using antiquated Emacs and use a  ...   Re: I agree   
Tim
Mar 4, 2008, 17:59:35
 
Most GUI IDEs have project configuration ...   Lock in   
JJS
Mar 4, 2008, 18:01:47
 
... when you pry it from my cold, dead h ...   I will stop using Emacs...   
David F. Skoll
Mar 4, 2008, 19:08:53
 
If I was going to switch from Emacs I&#3 ...   *** off Gosling   
John Haigh
Mar 4, 2008, 19:52:11
 
"Java has many fathers and mothers."Kind ...   many fathers   
richard
Mar 4, 2008, 21:06:10
 
> > Stop using antiquated Emacs and use  ...   Re: Re: I agree   
James E LaBarre
Mar 4, 2008, 22:02:49
 
Gosling says he has Bean there done that ...   Bean there done that   
chemicalscum
Mar 4, 2008, 23:05:44
 
...don't need no stinkin' Eye-De ...   Real programmers...   
Ken Jennings
Mar 5, 2008, 01:03:04
 
When programming APL you had to use spec ...   reminds me on APL   
AC
Mar 5, 2008, 08:33:33
 
but when I wanted to include some functi ...   I tried NetBeans ...   
GreyGeek
Mar 5, 2008, 17:07:29
 
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