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What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

#11

Why not to share results instantly?

I'm guessing this just goes into a spreadsheet, and at the end of the survey the results will be parsed into some kind of blog post.

I might write about it, but I don't mind sharing the spreadsheet. After all, the content is owned by the readers!!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An4bm34gQOpddHhwMm9...

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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post #8

C/C++ ? Really? Have you met many engineers who write a lot of C and who also love C++ or vice versa because I sure haven't. I decided not to complete the form after seeing 'C/C++'. Also, this is a flag if it's on a resume that the person may not really know either language.

From a perspective of IDE/editor selection, does this matter?

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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post #13

You can take a look at the Spreadsheet here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An4bm34gQOpddHhwMm9... And you are most welcome to "mine" it too (please share the results) ;)

Watching the live results is very entertaining. It's also the first time I've cared about the built-in chatroom on google docs.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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post #8

C/C++ ? Really? Have you met many engineers who write a lot of C and who also love C++ or vice versa because I sure haven't. I decided not to complete the form after seeing 'C/C++'. Also, this is a flag if it's on a resume that the person may not really know either language.

Or someone that puts it on his resume could know both languages in depth, but wants to save space. There are many ways of discovering whether someone has proficiency in languages, but this sounds like a really crappy indicator.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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I would have said Notepad++ until I found Sublime Text 2 ( http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-... ) here on HN. A big shout-out to you guys. I completely intend to buy a license when it comes out of Alpha.

I have started using Sublime a while back, but was recently thrown off by its lack of printing support... But generally my absolute favourite is Komodo -- I'm using IDE, but Edit is good enough for most tasks.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

#20
The greybeards all say "unix is an ide".

I think I first heard that from Tom Christiansen when he was heavily involved in the Perl community back in the mid '90s.

Even today, some of the most productive programmers I know only use X/Gnome/KDE(/OSX) as a means of organising terminals on modern hardware.

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