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- From: dwp+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug Philips)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Documenting
- Summary: something salient, shortly stated, sadly seldom satoric
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 03:08:32 GMT
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- In article <BEVAN.93Jan2174249@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- +The one thing I don't want when I use a compiler is to have to use a
- +new editor. This particular brain-dead idea seems rampant in the PC
- +area, were a compiler often comes with its own editor. Unless your
- +target market is a small niche system where there might not even be
- +and editor, there is no excuse for foistering a particular editor on
- +users. Note I'm aware you can often still run the compiler without
- +the integrated editor, but you lose all the "nice" features. For the
- +sake of a bit more effort these could be made available whatever
- +editor is being used (see below).
-
- Yes! Just want to add my agreement here. In the Forth world it is more
- comical (and more tragic) than for C or Basic or whatever. Every Forth
- has what its author thinks is "the best Forth editor". After all, the
- author(s) should know, having found numerous flaws and misfeatures in
- editors done by others, either ideological design differences, or mere
- implementation differences. Funny how they can't see that those who might
- want to use their system(s), being the stereotypical rampantly independent
- and rugged Forthers that they are, would in fact think the same thing of
- the very editor that they supply.
-
- -Doug
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