Pop quiz

[Erik Trimble]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> While most Java developers are adopting
> what we think of as "Java IDEs"
> such IDEs have less value for JDK developers
> (
> Are you ever gonna get the chance to "refactor" anything?
> Does your IDE understand UNIXProcess.java.linux?
> )
> and JDK developers are more likely to be
> set-in-their-ways Unix greybeards such as myself,
> who end up using idiosyncratic development environments.
> E.g. I use my own personal fork of XEmacs,
> with 15-year old private customizations.
>
> Martin
I do hear you on that.    I /do/ use an IDE (Netbeans) for looking at 
Java code, simply because I'm not "real" developer, and it's so much 
easier to look at the JDK codebase via an IDE, so I can get the 
annotations and library references simply.  IDEs are just so darned 
useful for code browsing, that I'm not even going to think about going 
elsewhere.  That said, I'm not actually writing code, so I'm not using 
the various other tools as much (and, thus, have less of a feel for 
where an IDE might be less useful than other custom solutions).


That said, I do look at the Hotspot VM codebase using emacs (19.1, to be 
exact), as it's C++ (mostly), and I'm far too attached to my MIT 
MediaLab/SIPB lisp extensions to let them go at this point.


I hate to think of myself as a greybeard, but, damnit, looking in the 
mirror, there's just too many white hairs on my chin to dispute the 
categorization anymore. 

<sigh>

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