Re: FN-FORUM Why Hand Code Anyway?

date posted 18th July 2001 19:29

> Firstly, Rick, sorry mate, but that code is not hand coded on your
> website. Or at least, not all of it.

kitty5.com was partially done in hotmetal pro

> Secondly, if you're going to handcode then you should use something
> decent like Homesite on the PC, BBEdit on the Mac, Emacs on unix, etc.
> These programs colour code your code for you so that you can jump
> backwards and forwards between code sections and still have a good idea
> where you are when you are scrolling.

textpad has syntax highlighting for almost every text based programming lang
you can think of.

> You aren't doing either yourself or your client any favours by using
> notepad or textedit/vi etc. as it takes YOU longer, costs THEM more
> money and allows for a lot of simple mistakes to creep in.
> Secondly, you can then get rid of those horrible tags that
> so many college taught developers always use.

thats hotmetal pro again - one of the reasons i stoppped using it.

Rick

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