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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:45:20 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>:
> My feeling is that better tools would make a substantial difference -
> perhaps 25% better productivity for me - but nothing like an order of
> magnitude.
This one is hard for me to evaluate, because Wesnoth is my only C++
project -- more usually I work in Python and C, and my stuff here is Lisp
(I was active in the Emacs C core once, but that was long ago).
That said, I think your 25% guess is about right as far as lines of
code goes. But that wouldn't measure the whole gain -- because with
better tools, my coding effort is quite a bit more likely to be
directed appropriately.
(This is the particular reason bug trackers are really important.)
> Miles, why aren't we all switching to arch? Would it be appropriate for
> Emacs now?
Please not Arch. I just learned it; brilliant ideas, but its
interface should be be outlawed under the Geneva convention as a form
of torture.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Alan Mackenzie, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Nick Roberts, 2007/12/31