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Those Borland IDEs, a show of hands for Turbo Basic as well, were the main reason why I never liked the UNIX development experience, until a professor showed us XEmacs, at the time much more feature rich than Emacs, and vi was still vi, not vim.

Thankfully with KDevelop, Smalltalk, and when Java started to make IDEs more common on UNIX, I no longer needed XEmacs.

Ironically for all IDE-haters, even James Gosling, inventor of XEmacs, says people are missing out not using IDEs, he surely moved on from Emacs ecosystem.



Nit: James Gosling implemented Unipress Emacs aka. Gosmacs, not XEmacs (with a lot of licensing sturm-und-drang). XEmacs was forked from Gnu Emacs at Lucid, by jwz (Jamie Zawinski)




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