Re: Which new language to learn?

From: Percival (dragontamer5788_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:54:46 -0500

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:51:28 +0000, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:

> In article <MPG.1c6da3b0265665be989efa@news.verizon.net>,
> Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:
>>Strange as it may sound, I need none of those things when I am typing
>>in source code. I see a distinction between word processor and text
>>editor, yet just now I started up notepad (pretty basic as far as
>>editing features go) on an XP box. 2.4MB just to load with no file,
>>just an empty page. Load the about box (and exit it) and it jumps
>
> When you go from a text screen to high resolution color graphics,
> anything that displays anything is going to take a chunk of memory just
> to draw a window on the screen. But that doesn't change the general trend
> of programs getting a lot bigger and crashier than can be explained by the
> graphical display.

Thats why he put the gvim example in there.

Percival

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