Reminds of this - Peter Norvig's - "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html - Nowadays I setup c

Reminds of this - Peter Norvig's - "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" http://norvig.com/21-days.html http://norvig.com/21-days.html - Nowadays I setup cygwin, have cl.exe in my PATH (too bad the 64-bit bit version is separated). Have the WindowsDDK installed (liked it better than Windows SDK, as it allows me to compile for old systems) Same for Linux (arm, x86, x64 machines) and OSX. The terminal is always there. Along with FAR (Windows), Midnight Commander (OSX, linux), emacs (aquamacs on OSX) and build tools - make mainly, or shell script, batch files. Now why? Well because I can manage it better this way. XCode4 brings the things very nice, yet the created project is quite big to control outside. MSVC same thing, but worse when comes to do multiple settings or dependencies. Still... for a big company, studio - MSVC is the easiest for most people (I wish otherwise).