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This may be the shortest solution I've seen yet to defaulting to a really useful .NET Command Prompt. I still like this one best, though.
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Thanks to IXml* for making me aware of the CSS Zen Garden site. If you are having any trouble at all selling the idea of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to the clueless, just show them this site and let them click their own way to enlightenment.
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If you think you have used all possible programmer's editors, but have not yet tried Leo, you are wrong. Leo inherits from CWEB, the quintessential literate programming system designed by Donald E. Knuth and Silvio Levy, and MORE, Dave Winer's ancient and venerable outline editor. But Leo's author, Edward K. Ream, has gone a considerable distance beyond these origins. Leo is “100% pure Python,” and uses Tcl/Tk to draw the screen. Leo is portable and currently runs on (at least) Windows, Linux and MacOS X Jaguar.
Edward's brother, “Speed” Ream, wrote, "Best wishes to anyone willing to try Leo for a week. I hope you will be glad you did." I am and I think you will be, also. As fellow watchers of a particular show on RAI International might say, “I Raccomandati!“
P.S. I rate Leo as a “must have” for Python programmers. The code makes for a good read.
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Robert wrote:
> As someone points out, this is super depressing that an experienced
> C++ developer can't afford a copy of VS.net.
You do not need Visual Studio.NET to learn and do .NET programming. You can do a lot for free.
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P.S. A lot of discussion was generated from my article. You will find some of it in the comments and some in microsoft.public.dotnet.faqs (my original post was Number 9 in the “Trivial question - Visual C# .Net vs Visual Studio .Net “ thread):
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=2f40ad321ec80446&seekm=eqN2%24oRiDHA.2224%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl#link1
I will simply reiterate here that the key takeaway from my article is basically a “Thank you!“ -- firstly to Microsoft for “giving away“ the .NET Framework SDK, with all of its tools, and secondly to everyone else in the .NET community for creating and contributing so many other free tools and samples. The .NET community has fully enabled even the poorest among us to learn and do .NET programming If you can afford a modestly capable computer running either Windows 2000 (or above) and the SDK or Linux with Mono, you can program in .NET.
No, you cannot do everything for free. Yes, you can learn .NET programming in a staggering array of languages. Yes, you can create excellent software using the .NET Framework SDK and a huge combination of free tools.