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Coders At Work: does it cover tools?

 
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Does the Coders at Work cover the tools used by the coders? Are there common trends such as a tendency to use basic tooling that works rather that more sophisticated IDE tools? Do they express opinions on the importance of tooling and automation?

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Based on the user reviews at Amazon, I think the book Coders at Work also cover tools.
 
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I did ask most folks about that. Mostly the answer was "Emacs". ;-) The main difference seemed to be between the folks who used Emacs and felt like they really should learn a modern IDE and those who used Emacs and thought modern IDEs were a waste of time.
 
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Peter Seibel wrote:I did ask most folks about that. Mostly the answer was "Emacs". ;-) The main difference seemed to be between the folks who used Emacs and felt like they really should learn a modern IDE and those who used Emacs and thought modern IDEs were a waste of time.



what is emacs?
 
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pooja jain wrote:

Peter Seibel wrote:I did ask most folks about that. Mostly the answer was "Emacs". ;-) The main difference seemed to be between the folks who used Emacs and felt like they really should learn a modern IDE and those who used Emacs and thought modern IDEs were a waste of time.



what is emacs?


http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
 
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pooja jain wrote:what is emacs?



In addition to the link above, you can read all about its invention in the Guy Steele chapter.
 
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Emacs is the One True Editor.
 
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David Newton wrote:Emacs is the One True Editor.


Do you recommend to use Emacs instead of Eclipse and NetBeans?
 
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For serious Java development? No way.
 
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