Lunchtime advice from a colleague

[premiere]

So there I am, sitting at a round table in the company restaurant at lunchtime, trying to eat and read The Sun...erm, I mean The Times and two other blokes decide to sit at the same table as me and rapidly begin to annoy the feck out of me.

I try to ignore them whilst reading all about the goings on in 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here', when bloke number 1 asks bloke number 2 what he thinks in his opinion is a good piece of software for building websites.

The reply was (well something like this)..

"The best thing you can use to make a website is notepad.The development time may seem longer for those who do not understand what is actually going on, but your code will always be more compact, streamlined and you will understand the reasons behind 'not' using certain technologies for certain tasks.

Learn to code by hand. Its long and arduous, but you 'learn' what is going on and what every single piece of your code does. Every piece of information you ever pick up will be understood by you and not just because you turned around to some program and said, 'I want this, there' which very often results in such bad code as it shouldnt be allowed to deface the net!"

[Ardesco]

This was a permie ????

[premiere]

Both are permies.

[sasguru]

So there I am, sitting at a round table in the company restaurant at lunchtime, trying to eat and read The Sun...erm, I mean The Times and two other blokes decide to sit at the same table as me and rapidly begin to annoy the feck out of me.

I try to ignore them whilst reading all about the goings on in 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here', when bloke number 1 asks bloke number 2 what he thinks in his opinion is a good piece of software for building websites.

The reply was (well something like this)..

"The best thing you can use to make a website is notepad.The development time may seem longer for those who do not understand what is actually going on, but your code will always be more compact, streamlined and you will understand the reasons behind 'not' using certain technologies for certain tasks.

Learn to code by hand. Its long and arduous, but you 'learn' what is going on and what every single piece of your code does. Every piece of information you ever pick up will be understood by you and not just because you turned around to some program and said, 'I want this, there' which very often results in such bad code as it shouldnt be allowed to deface the net!"

And your point is?

[Churchill]

Notepad is for losers.

Edlin is the coming thing...

copy con: index.htm

[Cliphead]

vi

[Ardesco]

vi is awkward for large cut and pastes (or maybe I have become too dependant on a mouse + highlighting....)

[Cliphead]

vi is awkward for large cut and pastes (or maybe I have become too dependant on a mouse + highlighting....)

It can be done though. For more comfortable text editing joe is nice a WordStar like app.

[Ardesco]

It can be done though. For more comfortable text editing joe is nice a WordStar like app.

Not saying it can't be done, just that it is awkward

[Churchill]

And don't forget the Control Z at the end...

Those were the days, eh?