--- Amol Hatwar amol@hatwar.org wrote:
Don't want to start a war here... but just for the point, what Eclipse does with 200 MB emacs does with 20.
Indeed. However, Eclipse the Rich Client Platform is what's really interesting.
One of my good friends at IBM did try introducing me to Eclipse... that was version 1.0... and I was like rolling on the floor laughing. Newer versions "have" shown promise, but it fundamentally still remains bloatware.
Eww.. I'm not sure what demo you saw. I've been a heavy user of IBM's Visual Age for Java and Smalltalk, and Visual Modelling is something that perhaps no one else has attempted.
There are scores of features that powerful IDEs support, and I liked Visual Age enough to bear with it on my P166MMX/128 MB Ram box.
Eclipse is today way beyond an IDE. You should see some of the apps that are possible with the platform and the frameworks.
I'd love to show off the Eclipse platform someday at a LUG meet when I'm in Mumbai.
Wonder if anyone has given talks on emacs. On how emacs can be used to:
- Edit files
- Run shell commands
- Read mail
- Extended itself via LISP code
- Play tetris (when the boss ain't looking)
They don't call emacs the one true program for nothing :).
A number of my friends have told me about emacs, but I haven't even seen it yet. I'll definitely give it a try, now that I'm venturing forth into the Linux world.
Regards,
Thanks for the response, and for piquing my curiosity about emacs.
ah
-- Sriram
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