Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found myself working much more in vim and emacs. I’m not quite sure what started it off, but I think I wanted to figure out, for myself, how efficient I would be using only lexical completion (in vim; vim doesn’t have intelligent omnicomplete for C#, that I know of) vs. using Visual Studio’s intellisense for C#.
Little bit of extra activity - I decided to clean out some of my drafts, one about DTrace and one about AOP (the one about Firefox’s SSL policy I wrote this evening). I’m not sure if they are in a state of completion, so please leave comments if you see obvious omisions. Grazie!
Today’s happy little rant comes courtesy of some asshat at UMass Lowell. The article is entitled:
I was reading this article, on LWN, about “DTrace envy”. The short of the article is that, despite great efforts, the DTrace “ecosystem” of tools has yet to be replicated on Linux. Forgetting the technical considerations for a minute, it might be worth your time to read through the comments at what appears to be a partial example of what I term “political argument”.
I just watched a talk about AOP given by some guy from PARC (Gregor Kiczales), and I have to say the following:
Before I watched this talk, I thought AOP was just another bad idea. After watching this talk, I realize that AOP is Yet Another Really Bad Idea. Either that or this guy is just a few steps away from needing a nurse to cut up his food.
