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Original Post: Sad, really
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So here's a post on LongHorn, replete with the now obligatory "It's better than Mac" yelling. In the middle of the post is something I found amusing, and kind of sad:
Speaking of Allchin, you've not lived until you've watched a group vice-president (Allchin owns Platforms, which means that he has ultimate responsibility for what goes into Windows - what you'd expect to be a fairly PHB role) go head to head with Don Box on the latter's preference for emacs (Allchin's apparently a vi man) and then write code live on stage in front of seven thousand geeks and a worldwide audience. Oh, and argue variable naming conventions too. Either a) the guy's been drilled to within an inch of his life or b) he's a quick re-learner (or, even more scary, c) he's more competent than about 50% of the dreck that wears the "Software Developer" badge)
So - to write code, neither of these people use MS tools (like, say - VS, or even an MS text editor)? They stood in front of an audience and made the implicit point that either Emacs or VI are better for code development than MS tools are. That, to me, is a marketing blunder of the first order. Wonder if anyone else picked up on it....
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