Recommend IDE for coding in "C" -- some historical context

[Ted Creedon]

Vi replaced Ed (Editor)

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:00 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > >
> > > > Paul,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It should be noted that in Linux/Unix, all the development tools are
> > > > command-line based, and so any IDE is going to call make, gcc, git,
> gdb,
> > > > javac, etc behind the scenes anyway to do the actual work.
> > >
> > > And C was originally invented jointly with a command-line Unix system.
> > > So using it this way fits with tradition.
> >
> >
> > Yup.  Worse, from an editing/developing standpoint, the standard terminal
> > was a teletype terminal, a combination printer and keyboard that usually
> > printed at the rate of about 4 characters/second (45 Baud).
>
> The slowest I ever encountreed in the 60's was 110 boud, about 10
> characters per second.  But for typing, the old KSR teletypes required
> so much force that it may well have taken superhuman finger strength to
> enter more than about 4 characters per second, whatever the baud rate.
>
> > This virtually
> > demanded a terse command line syntax and the bare minimum of excess
> output.
>
> And it's why the common Unix commands are so cryptically short.
>
> > >
> > > What emacs accomplished in those early days was to be a UI for text
> > > terminals.  You had multiple 'buffers', which could be put in
> differennt
> > > places on the screen, or placed in the background to be recalled later.
> > > Some buffers would contain files t edit, others aould act as command-
> > > language terminals, and so forth.
> > >
> >
> > It still does those things, which is still very, very useful.
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> >
> > >
> >
> > X was started as a project in 1984 at MIT. Both Emacs (from MIT) and vi
> > (from Berkeley) were first written in 1976 or so.  Both Emacs and vi came
> > out of a desire to make line or tape oriented editors easier to use on
> the
> > new-fangled CRT displays.  Emacs was originally a set of macros for the
> > TECO (Tape Editor and COrrector) editor,
>
> Yes..  But it's not the one we have now.  Richard Stallman had a
> copyright dispute with MIT, which resulted in MIT taking his emacs
> proprietary.  He has an early free-software licence in the emacs manual,
> declaring emacs to be free, and MIT decided that it was work-for-hire
> and took it over.
>
> THis was one of the events on the way to his GNU public license ans the
> dree software foundation.  As I understand it, one of the first pieces
> of GNU software was a new emacs, this time based on a Lisp dialect.  The
> result was the emacs we have today.
>
> -- hendrik
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