News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students. Parent comment

Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:10AM (#22117637)
> Can you name a better format for programming language documentation that's also ubiquitously supported?

Info format. It's supported by Emacs, and Emacs is the most ubiquitous of IDE's.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by randomblast on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:16AM (#22117679)
> Emacs is the most ubiquitous of IDE's.

Sorry, have you been in a coma for 30 years?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by SEJeff on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:38AM (#22117864)
Your question is rhetorical here, right?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by adwn on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:48AM (#22117941)
> Info format.

I said "ubiquitously supported". There are several orders of magnitude difference between info format support and HTML support.

> Emacs is the most ubiquitous of IDE's

That's laughably wrong.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:19PM (#22123146)
Well, it may be on everyone's machine (just type 'which emacs') but that hardly makes it the most commonly used IDE, which I think is what's hard to stomach.
[ Parent | on HN ]