Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- Subject: Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:40:01 -0700
On Apr 16, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:
On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
That's not a reasonable answer. A glorified text editor should not
require a gigabyte of ram. As computers have gotten faster,
computer programs have required more ram and faster processors. The
source code is no more difficult to edit than it was a decade ago.
Writing text should be a solved problem.
If all you're doing is writing text, Xcode is not the right tool.
There's quite a great deal of "glory" in there to justify the
increased resource usage. Whether there's *enough* glory to justify
*this* *much* resource usage as a more complicated conversation.
Writing text is its main function. If it can't do that well, it
doesn't matter what else it can do.
If nothing else, look at it this way: I remember a time when Emacs
was considered such a big program people actually got fired for
launching it on a shared machine, and people said *that* "glorified
text editor" was unjustifiably big. Now, with Xcode around to
compare to, Emacs is positively puny!
I stopped using emacs for the much the same reason as I avoid Xcode:
it's too slow. It takes an unreasonably long time to open and when I
want to start editing text, I want to do it _right now_.
The scope of emacs is much larger than that of Xcode so I'm not sure
I'd call it puny. The impression I got from listening to Stallman give
a talk last year (here's 9 minutes of it, apparently <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWeWAeD1zY
>) was that he uses emacs for everything. The old joke about a great
OS but coming with a poor text editor, indeed! I'm just thankful that
Apple doesn't think that I should be checking my email with Xcode.
--
Steve Checkoway
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| | >G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: P Teeson <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: William Bates <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Wesley Smith" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Joachim Deelen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Jeremy Pereira <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>) |