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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by nuwin_tim on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:03PM (#9218860)
Did you mostly use vi to edit files? What were some of your goto IDEs?
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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by davidw on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:11PM (#9218937)
No, I've always been an Emacs guy, and still am.

When I got started with Linux, on a 386 with 4 megs of memory, I used jed though because the machine was so limited - even back in the mid 90ies it was a pretty limited machine.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by opless on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:10PM (#9218929)
For me it was mostly vi editing perl cgi on Solaris or Linux boxes. Someone might have been using (x)emacs, but he was weird ;-)

Oh, and we didn't use source control either.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by rikkus on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:12PM (#9218941)
vi with perl cgi here, too.

I played a little with Java Applets. I still remember waiting for them to start up.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like writing web apps / sites in the ... by opless on Friday March 20, 2015 @01:31PM (#9239169)
Oh gosh, I forgot those!

I even wrote a airline-booking-system terminal program in Java, all before swing reared its ugly head!

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