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I believe python is popular these days, but I think C is still the language of choice. A few years back when I was a TA I was tutoring on a C course at Leeds un

by qubyte 13y ago

I believe python is popular these days, but I think C is still the language of choice. A few years back when I was a TA I was tutoring on a C course at Leeds university, and Sussex (where I did my undergrad) they're pretty hardcore, so I reckon it's still C with the occasional course in F77. I started on emacs with that C course. These days I use sublime text for my own machines, and vim elsewhere (although I'm not very good). The end result of all this? I finish sentences with a semicolon and save with colon-w-q (or x, but wq is way more satisfying); :wq

NAFV_P 13y ago
I was wondering if Haskell would be good for scientific computation. It has bignum like Python, but I think it is more popular among mathematicians than physicists. Joe can emulate Emacs, Pico and another editor called WordStar (which I think is hardly ever used these days), but it doesn't emulate Vi. Perhaps the guy who wrote it hates Vi. Interestingly I believe Vi was designed for writing C source. Bill Joy was working on the first BSD OS around the same time, the original Vi was probably involved in the bootstrapping process. If you want a massive list of editors: http://texteditors.org http://texteditors.org