[michaelochurch]

If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed.

Lolwut?

Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?

[jdiez17]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I got a fishy feeling from reading that post.

It's like it's written to not mean much, but get money from ad impressions. I didn't like the post in general, nor the title.

I don't think he makes very good points, except the variable/conditional/etc thing.

[udp]

This is very Microsoft-orientated. Even the open source software he recommends is Windows-only (Dev-C++, Notepad++).

[greyfade]

... And obsolete. Bloodshed Dev-C++ hasn't seen one whit of activity in nearly 8 years (4 years at the time of the article's writing). I can't comprehend why people keep recommending it to anyone.