Re: [9fans] debugging p9p threads question

[LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>]

When I first started learning how to program, I had a Windblows box
and some generic C environment that included a 'RAD'. About a month
later, having made absolutely no progress with this 'RAD' thingie, a
family friend gave me Slackware 3.x and showed me some of the basics.
I wasted a month as an 11 year old attempting to use this asinine
'RAD', with its poor layout, awful design and features, whilst the
really useful toolset was sitting on the stupid Slackware CD. I've not
even heard the acronym 'RAD' as of late, but the new IDE's seem to be
just as awful as that one, but with better documentation of useless
features... ;-)
Meh, now I'll just go serialize some objects to XML...
 -- Stefan
On 8/2/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> >> interesting, that's the answer in the supercomputing world too.
> >
> > Interesting.  I'm tutoring high school students in a
> > programming contest right now.  They are writing their codes
> > with emacs/vi and running their MPI jobs on Origin 2k.
> >
> > One of the contestants told me .NET was a far better interface
> > for programming, which included everything like editor,
> > compiler, debugger, online manuals and what not.
> >
> > Actually, he even showed me debugging fruently on .NET.
> > I rather felt old then...
> > # no flame intended
> > --
> 
> It has been my experience that IDE's (including things like Eclipse)
> add as many problems as they "solve" with their interfaces.  Also,
> they're not universal; e.g.  try to do Windows driver debugging with
> Visual Studio.  Guess what works?  printing to the console.
> 
> Acid is about the best idea I've seen.
> 
> 


-- 
The subject of this essay (the Myth of Sisyphus) is precisely
this relationship between the absurd and suicide, the exact
degree to which suicide is a solution to the absurd. The 
principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat,
what he believes to be true must determine his action.
Belief in the absurdity of existence must then dictate his
conduct. It is legitimate to wonder, clearly and without
false pathos, whether a conclusion of this importance
requires forsaking as rapidly possiblean imcompre-
hensible condition. I am speaking, of course, of men
inclined to be in harmony with themselves.
  << Albert Camus>>