July 2007
3 posts
Fitting Inadequate Tools
As an after-thought to yesterday’s post, I remembered Kyle (another person who prefers Emacs over Eclipse) showing me to double loop iterator variable names as in ii instead of i or jj instead of j. This allows you to search for loop iterator variables without results coming up everywhere the letter “i” is used in your file.
What he was basically suggesting was that I change...
Tool Power and Why I Use Eclipse
I was talking with Kyle the other day about how with programming languages, when you look up at languages more powerful than the ones you know, all you see is what you already know and the supposedly more powerful languages seem not so great. However, when you look down at less powerful languages, it’s obvious that they are less powerful. I’m not talking about computational power, as...