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I'm writing a new Linux program!
Post 55209 by Danny_10 on Monday 6th of September 2004 09:47:55 AM
09-06-2004
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Originally posted by Driver
You should wait until you actually have some source code before you start announcing anything. Perhaps this may turn out to be a vaporware product that will never become usable - There are enough such examples on sourceforge already. If you were really interested in criticism and good ideas, I suppose you'd have talked more about your own innovative ideas. If you only do this project to learn more about programming, it definitely does not belong on sourceforge!
> There are 1000's of text editors already available. (Just ask Google), so why reinvent the wheel and create yet another?
I'm all for reinventing stuff. I have both the ``Not Invented Here'' and ``Let's Reinvent the Wheel'' syndromes, but I can still think of a few objective reasons as to why it may be beneficial to roll your own applications in general, and text editors in particular:
- You can implement exactly what you want in exactly the way you want it
- You can leave out tons of bloat included by other text editors that you never need and use
- Since you are the author, you will find it very easy to add new features and bugfixes. This may be a lot harder with a huge and unknown source base of, say, emacs
- It will help you become more familiar with text editing in general. The console version may provide new insights about terminal capabilities and the terminal databases to begin with ...
Oh, and
Don't you think there are even more ``ls''-style programs than Unix text editors?
You should wait until you actually have some source code before you start announcing anything. Perhaps this may turn out to be a vaporware product that will never become usable - There are enough such examples on sourceforge already. If you were really interested in criticism and good ideas, I suppose you'd have talked more about your own innovative ideas. If you only do this project to learn more about programming, it definitely does not belong on sourceforge!
> There are 1000's of text editors already available. (Just ask Google), so why reinvent the wheel and create yet another?
I'm all for reinventing stuff. I have both the ``Not Invented Here'' and ``Let's Reinvent the Wheel'' syndromes, but I can still think of a few objective reasons as to why it may be beneficial to roll your own applications in general, and text editors in particular:
- You can implement exactly what you want in exactly the way you want it
- You can leave out tons of bloat included by other text editors that you never need and use
- Since you are the author, you will find it very easy to add new features and bugfixes. This may be a lot harder with a huge and unknown source base of, say, emacs
- It will help you become more familiar with text editing in general. The console version may provide new insights about terminal capabilities and the terminal databases to begin with ...
Oh, and
Don't you think there are even more ``ls''-style programs than Unix text editors?
Just because there are many text editors doesn't mean that I should "re-invent the wheel."
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I have a question to ask a few people.
Should the program run on an X11 server (like Ted, the Linux RTF editor), or should it be a program that can run on KDE (like Konqueror)?
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