A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by celticbadboy » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 9:52 AM UTC

A typical programmers toolbox
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Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by duaneb » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

All of a sudden it occurs to me that two people can be called 'programmer' and do radically different things. Surely the typical programmer's toolbox is: an editor, a compiler/interpreter/magic lisp box/whatever, and possibly a debugger.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by phektus » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:16 AM UTC

I think the title should be "A typical .NET/Microsoft programmers toolbox", as most of the tools listed are useable by MS devs. Case in point, I'm a web developer and I don't have/need most of these in my working laptop (an mba11).

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by yitchelle » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:24 AM UTC

duaneb wrote: post #2

All of a sudden it occurs to me that two people can be called 'programmer' and do radically different things. Surely the typical programmer's toolbox is: an editor, a compiler/interpreter/magic lisp box/whatever, and possibly a debugger.

similar to my toolbox, as an embedded engineer, the number of compilers that I have on my computer is about 8 installation for various different micros, along with this is the same number of debuggers.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by Posibyte » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:25 AM UTC

Seems more like "A typical Jeremy Morgan Toolbox". Most of that would be superfluous for being typical in the general sense of a text editor, a reader of some sort, and an execution environment.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by avargas » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:29 AM UTC

... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by phatbyte » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:33 AM UTC

This should be renamed to "My typical programming toolbox"

Except for Skype (I'm moving to google talk very soon tho) I don't use any of these tools. And I highly doubt anyone on HN use any of it as well :P

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by 6ren » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:38 AM UTC

Maybe, a (typical programmer's) toolbox.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by styts » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:47 AM UTC

avargas wrote: post #6

... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.

Exactly. An editor, a shell and a browser is all you need.

I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.

Re: A typical programmers toolbox

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Post by guilloche » Sun, Jan 13, 2013, 10:48 AM UTC

I use none of them. Maybe it should be renamed as a windows programmer's toolbox.