> -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Miller > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 3:28 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux and on topic > > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Adam Morris wrote: > > > Relgious war aside, can you speak where you're getting this > from? I'm a > > programmer myself, and I hang out with programmer types, and I > would say > > pretty much all of them use Vi unless they've switched to an IDE or > > spent their entire lives in the Windows world. (And many of them, > > including myself, use plugins to give those IDEs Vi keybindings if such > > a thing exists for that IDE.) > > > Are there data on this? Surveys? > > Mike In my experience (considerable: with several hundred programmers doing stuff ranging from supercomputing OS and language stuff, to IT to embedded and secure avionics, and so on... ) those who do kinda small single-thread stuff like I/O intensive IT stuff will prefer vi, while those (eg, MIT PhDs) who do huge and inter-related stuff will prefer Emacs. Like most else, it's context-dependent. No surveys, except herding such cats on aerospace contract projects and programs which have formal reviews, deliverables, and so on. Chuck