[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]
“Eclipse is known mainly as a Java IDE and it does
require Java itself, but it is also a powerful and flexible
multi-purpose platform, and adaptations exist for programming in
many languages, including Java, C/C++, Lisp, and Python. Python
support is available with an Eclipse package called
“PyDev”, and I have found it to be a big step up.“Programming through the ages
“When I learned “vi”, I did not do so by choice in
any real sense of the word. At that time, I was using a university
Unix computer, and my choices were between vi and what was known as
a “line editor”.[1] Emacs probably did exist in 1985,
but I certainly hadn’t heard anything about it and I
don’t think we had a copy. So, I knuckled under and learned
all of vi’s bizarre syntax and hot keys, because I had to. I
then developed my first professional program in Fortran 77 using
it, which was probably about 5000 lines of original code. Needless
to say, I learned vi pretty thoroughly.”