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"[Emacs'] idioms are paths to discovering and creating your own, and that for me is the definition of creativity." What a great sentence which highlights a str

• agumonkey 7y ago
  I found out an old win95 computer with turbo pascal 7 on it. I was so amazed about the IDE .. yet hard coded keybindings made me suffer so much. I couldn't stop saying "if that was emacs I .."
  • noir_lord 7y ago
    Other than things like the keybindings I still maintain that TP was one of the finest development tools I ever used, insanely fast builds (for the time) with fantastic documentation made for a really tight closed loop. Delphi managed to bring that to the graphical desktop and I think had it they not screwed up with the price would have done much better.
    • agumonkey 7y ago
      yeah I was blown away by the amount of features packed into 600kB. I didn't realize as a kid that I was compiling native code .. now I understand the feat.
• m463 7y ago
  My version of embrace-and-extend is usually copy-paste-and-extend ;) (unless there are well-chosen customizable variables)