What 3 programming languages do you have on your phone, and pray tell, what kind of wonder phone is this?
Re:How I Program Stuff
by groovy2shoes on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:41AM
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The Android Market has a bunch of mini development environments. On my Galaxy S, I have a Clojure REPL and two little apps for Ruby and Lua "development." Of course, you wouldn't want to do anything serious directly on the phone, but it's nice for trying out little things when you have an idea while you're out.
Most of the time I don't have a particular need for a development environment, but I have a phobia about being stranded somewhere without my tools. My mobile phone has 3 programming languages, their manuals and other cheat-sheets. It also has as many advanced calculators, solvers & graphic visualization utilities.
To me it's a mix of arms race & addiction. I hack because I crave it. I feel inadequate if I don't know how something works.
Most of my work is snippets. I usually store it in a file with a long descriptive name, for later finding & greping. I have had a ~/hacks directory in all my machines for the last 12 years or so.