Comments on: Goodbye

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:49:28 +0000

I’ve logged a few hours at the keyboard with dBrief, which was optimized for dBase programming, but my real time is spent in debuggers of one flavor or another, which is why I went with WordPress, instead of coding this mess by hand.

Coffeecup wasn’t alone in that particular fault, it was really annoying, They couldn’t figure out that if you’re going to be forced to learn a new user interface, instead of upgrading, you may start looking at other products.

I’ve been through Emac, vi, edlin, and the rest, but I still will go back to WordStar if I have to do major program creation.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:20:25 +0000

LOL @ Steve! Hah! I remember that one… God… I haven’t used it for years! Was a good editor though. I’m sure I still have a copy somewhere… in fact, I know I do! 🙂

Thanks for the reminder. 😀

@ Bryan: Coffeecup was a bit strange… I think they kept trying to add features and changed the way it worked too often. Hotdog was always the same (until v6 anyway), new features were added to the Tools or other menu’s usually, but the UI didn’t change a lot (unless you wanted to change it).

I use Bluementals WeBuilder 2007 now, because it’s all-in-one (HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, XML, JS… etc) and it has a nice UI. 🙂 And is cheap! LOL I use KompoZer for quick and simple work. It’s based on the Mozilla NVU editor that hasn’t been developed for awhile now. KompoZer is called “Nvu’s unnoficial bug-fix release.” It’s on Sourceforge. (Linux, OSX, WinAll). 😉 There’s also a portable version of KompoZer that I keep on my USB key (with the portable FireFox etc)! 🙂

Good ol’ vi! It will never die! …hey… that rhymes! “He was a poet and didn’t knowet!” LOL

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:16:36 +0000

I believe that happens occasionally in folk tales, but is extremely rare among software packages.

By: distributorcap

distributorcap — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:48:15 +0000

ironic it disappears on leap day…….maybe it only disappears every four years

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:24:39 +0000

“BYT, the accounting software company that created the Hotdog web page editor, was called Sausage Software! LOL (I was always amused by that)!” – Kryten42

Nothing, but nothing, tops the name of the company that made and marketed the venerable BRIEF programmer’s editor… UnderWare.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:41:44 +0000

I still code in WordStar non-document mode, and vi requires a DEC box.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:20:11 +0000

probably. also, i had to google ‘vi’.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:45:34 +0000

I sometimes think you are Google’s number one user, Hipparchia. 😉

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:42:40 +0000

What’s wrong with ‘vi’? 🙂

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:39:06 +0000

fresh software. warm people. located, apparently, on a street named for the karankawa.