mulander

Thank you for the Prince of Persia series. I really wish that there was a maintained index of all such series :(

I think some background on the author is appropriate here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Zalewski

Simply amazing.

I really can't imagine how he wants to implement the compiler he speaks about :)

It has a mini map on the top of the screen.

Take a look at Squeak. The Smalltalk folks have been doing this for a long time with the GUI utilities. SLIME is another dynamic environment that knows and can tell You much about itself.

Referring to prototyping. I mostly do them with Emacs Lisp. This may sound strange at first, but this allows me to focus on exploring the problem and takes away the pain of setting up an interface to test stuff when they are still fluid. The funniest part is that once I had to help with a tedious documentation merging task on a tight schedule. Due to extremely limited time constraints I made a half automatic elisp solution that became the standard tool to perform the task. It's still used and by people never exposed to Emacs before.

Other: Oracle PL/SQL on a daily basis at work.

People said similar things about Emacs (a great OS needing a decent text editor). Such statements mostly underestimate the tools in question unless this is just an intended reference to the Emacs quote.

I have no problems with large files - using Emacs 23 from http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html.

The file on the screenshot is ~156MB took several seconds to load but after that all operations on it are instant.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9108/emacslargefile.png

The blacked out parts are work related - sorry.