[efsavage]

> I've worked with really awesome people who are completely lost without [insert proprietary single-platform editor here].

And this is bad why? I'd rather be 100% productive for 10 years and then retool than 80% productive all the time.

[dlsspy]

This is bad because he was 0% productive for many days because he couldn't input text on the computer where the problem was because it didn't have his editor.

[efsavage]

We're 0% productive most of the time. Sleeping, commuting, meetings, lunch. Adding a negligible amount more for tooling is not really an issue.

I'm essentially dependent on Eclipse when doing Java. It takes me < 1 hour to get it set up the way I like it. For the next 2-3000 hours before I need to set it up again, I will outperform and produce better quality code than anyone using vi or emacs, guaranteed. Sounds like a fair tradeoff to me.

Back when I was on a Civil Engineering path, an elderly engineer said "I bet you don't even know how to use a slide rule, what do you do when the power goes out", to which I responded, "I go home, same as you, unless you've got candles in your desk too, and let's not even get into air conditioning".