cornedpig

Microsoft announced perhaps two years ago that the health benefits were being reduced starting January 2013

Even outside of .NET, it's got a tool built-in to make L"strings" 16-bit on all platforms, which is cool for portability (and an implementation of nmake for unix, which can also come in handy)

This is a difficult question. If the number of C++ developers is growing, but at a slower rate than the number of total developers, is that a decline?

What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas ?

As long as it's Belltown or Downtown arounds. Fremont is a lot harder to get to.

Doesn't matter if the patent holder is a troll with no viable products of its own.

What else would they call it? (use DPRK everywhere?) They don't recognize the "other" Korea. South Korea does the same, e.g. at http://www.mofat.go.kr/

I have, XEmacs -> Vim.

I had a very simple reason. I spend 4 hours a day in front of an editor, so I need something very powerful. I had standardized on XEmacs, but I had to stop when the pinky muscle strain got too bad (this was years after having remapped caps-lock to control). My hand would hurt when I got home.

I usually program in C/C++, Perl, and some XML & text editing, so I wasn't using Emacs' dynamic or programmable features much.

Vim is attractive because there's not really a need for modifier keys, just key sequences. Additionally, the great text navigation features are good when working with large existing codebases, it makes reading other people's code easier.

I kept going back to Emacs for XML editing for a while, but the mental overhead of keeping track of two systems is a bit much, and I found Komodo Edit a nice replacement (that incidentally also has a Vi-mode).

The only thing I really miss from Emacs is being able to "Ctrl-K" 3 times and pressing "Ctrl-Y" once to move 3 lines. With Vim you have to count the number of lines ahead of the operation, which is a real speedbump.

It does support Macs. It's got an API so hopefully someone will build other clients, like for Linux.

Celebrating its death